The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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Page 48
... say plantit , grantit , thankit , lookit , landit , kickit , etc. , just as their poet Barbour did five hundred years ago . But in Southern or Standard English it is the d form that is normal ; and the question is about such casual ...
... say plantit , grantit , thankit , lookit , landit , kickit , etc. , just as their poet Barbour did five hundred years ago . But in Southern or Standard English it is the d form that is normal ; and the question is about such casual ...
Page 57
... says , " Which indeed is the least of all seeds : but , when it is grown , it is the greatest among herbs and becometh a tree , so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches of it , " the A.-S. has " That is ealra sæda ...
... says , " Which indeed is the least of all seeds : but , when it is grown , it is the greatest among herbs and becometh a tree , so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches of it , " the A.-S. has " That is ealra sæda ...
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... say the invention , or adoption , of this form has changed not only our English style , but even our manner of thinking . " What Mr. Craik here says of Shakespeare is true of Milton . Perhaps it is even truer of Milton . That he was ...
... say the invention , or adoption , of this form has changed not only our English style , but even our manner of thinking . " What Mr. Craik here says of Shakespeare is true of Milton . Perhaps it is even truer of Milton . That he was ...
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... says Mr. Abbott , " was " preferred to grammatical correctness , and brevity both to correct- " ness and clearness . Hence it was common to place words in the “ order in which they came uppermost in the mind , without much regard to ...
... says Mr. Abbott , " was " preferred to grammatical correctness , and brevity both to correct- " ness and clearness . Hence it was common to place words in the “ order in which they came uppermost in the mind , without much regard to ...
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... say , in reading the more level passages , that it consists in a greater scholarliness , a more habitual conscious- ness ... says , " consisteth either in the agreement of words together in number , gender , case , and person , which is ...
... say , in reading the more level passages , that it consists in a greater scholarliness , a more habitual conscious- ness ... says , " consisteth either in the agreement of words together in number , gender , case , and person , which is ...
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