Essay on Milton's English and versification. Notes to the poemsMacmillan and Company, 1890 |
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... passage from the writings of the best authors very rarely falls beneath 70 per cent , —Swift , in the case of one Essay , falling as low as 68 per cent , but usually ranging higher ; and Johnson's proportion being 72 per cent , Gibbon's ...
... passage from the writings of the best authors very rarely falls beneath 70 per cent , —Swift , in the case of one Essay , falling as low as 68 per cent , but usually ranging higher ; and Johnson's proportion being 72 per cent , Gibbon's ...
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... passage from the above- mentioned Butler in 1633 on this very point . " So certaine , " he says , " is the Orthographie of the Hebrew , Greeke , and Latin ; that all Nations , though never so far distant in place , and different in ...
... passage from the above- mentioned Butler in 1633 on this very point . " So certaine , " he says , " is the Orthographie of the Hebrew , Greeke , and Latin ; that all Nations , though never so far distant in place , and different in ...
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... passage , yet in another or others ; and in most cases the most microscopic scrutiny can detect no reason why the spelling ever varies from this , except the fact that people did not then care for orthographic uniformity . Now , as we ...
... passage , yet in another or others ; and in most cases the most microscopic scrutiny can detect no reason why the spelling ever varies from this , except the fact that people did not then care for orthographic uniformity . Now , as we ...
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... passages as the following in his Elementary Latin Grammar entitled Accedence Com- menc't Grammar ( published in 1669 ... passage his would have been ambiguous between the speaker , Satan , and " mind " ; and , though her might have ...
... passages as the following in his Elementary Latin Grammar entitled Accedence Com- menc't Grammar ( published in 1669 ... passage his would have been ambiguous between the speaker , Satan , and " mind " ; and , though her might have ...
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... passage in which his and her , both in a neuter sense , are companions : - " O that torment should not be confin'd To the bodies wounds and sores With maladies innumerable In heart , head , brest , and reins ; But must secret passage ...
... passage in which his and her , both in a neuter sense , are companions : - " O that torment should not be confin'd To the bodies wounds and sores With maladies innumerable In heart , head , brest , and reins ; But must secret passage ...
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