The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1931 |
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Page 168
... words , that many other folk believed in nothing higher than their house- roof ; or , in Langland's words , ' of other heaven than here take they no tale . ' If we turn away from these extremes of conspicuous piety or crude materialism ...
... words , that many other folk believed in nothing higher than their house- roof ; or , in Langland's words , ' of other heaven than here take they no tale . ' If we turn away from these extremes of conspicuous piety or crude materialism ...
Page 347
... words and that ' among such foreign words are many neologisms due to the Great War , a certain number of which may successfully resist that demobilisation of the war - words which is now actively proceeding . The more recondite foreign ...
... words and that ' among such foreign words are many neologisms due to the Great War , a certain number of which may successfully resist that demobilisation of the war - words which is now actively proceeding . The more recondite foreign ...
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... words concern food ; old friends like pahny , rooty , and the other Anglo- Indians , are not yet old enough to be admitted here . Whether pozzy merits inclusion is an open point . This frequently used word for jam is a mystery : for ...
... words concern food ; old friends like pahny , rooty , and the other Anglo- Indians , are not yet old enough to be admitted here . Whether pozzy merits inclusion is an open point . This frequently used word for jam is a mystery : for ...
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