The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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Page 29
... seems really necessary is a candid and minute study of the actual history of English spelling , with a view to sound rules for the editorial use of our existing alphabet . Meanwhile , our business being with Milton , the facts as ...
... seems really necessary is a candid and minute study of the actual history of English spelling , with a view to sound rules for the editorial use of our existing alphabet . Meanwhile , our business being with Milton , the facts as ...
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... seems to have deter- mined the variation ; for , though once or twice been may be a little emphatic , it occurs also when there is no more emphasis than bin would have conveyed . The Long I sound proper ( though hardly the mere 1 of ...
... seems to have deter- mined the variation ; for , though once or twice been may be a little emphatic , it occurs also when there is no more emphasis than bin would have conveyed . The Long I sound proper ( though hardly the mere 1 of ...
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... seems to have settled that , in modern editions of such great authors as Bacon , Shakespeare , and Milton , just as in all modern editions of the authorised English Bible for general use , the spelling of our own time ought to be ...
... seems to have settled that , in modern editions of such great authors as Bacon , Shakespeare , and Milton , just as in all modern editions of the authorised English Bible for general use , the spelling of our own time ought to be ...
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... seems unnecessary to recur to a spelling so strange to our present habits , - the rather because our form than was used in Milton's time , and is a good old one in pre - Elizabethan English . — As to least for lest we need be in no ...
... seems unnecessary to recur to a spelling so strange to our present habits , - the rather because our form than was used in Milton's time , and is a good old one in pre - Elizabethan English . — As to least for lest we need be in no ...
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... seems not the least doubt , therefore , that Milton preferred , at least occasionally , the French form ( parfait , imparfait ) to the direct Latin ( perfectus , imperfectus ) . The French form indeed seems to have been the older ; for ...
... seems not the least doubt , therefore , that Milton preferred , at least occasionally , the French form ( parfait , imparfait ) to the direct Latin ( perfectus , imperfectus ) . The French form indeed seems to have been the older ; for ...
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