Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volume 1Nicol, 1803 - 424 pages |
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Page iii
... some care and attention , from a consider- able number of the best poetical libraries in this country . That it is still deficient , and that by greater industry it might have been improved , is very certain : * but the reader , who.
... some care and attention , from a consider- able number of the best poetical libraries in this country . That it is still deficient , and that by greater industry it might have been improved , is very certain : * but the reader , who.
Page iv
... reader will be better able to judge , when Mr. Ritson shall have printed his " Bibliographia Poetica , a Catalogue of " English Poets of the twelfth , thirteenth , fourteenth , " fifteenth , and sixteenth centuries , with a short ac ...
... reader will be better able to judge , when Mr. Ritson shall have printed his " Bibliographia Poetica , a Catalogue of " English Poets of the twelfth , thirteenth , fourteenth , " fifteenth , and sixteenth centuries , with a short ac ...
Page ix
... reader is requested to observe , that when the word about precedes the date , it must be understood to be correct within two or three years ; where a mark of interrogation is annexed , the date is only offered as an approximation ...
... reader is requested to observe , that when the word about precedes the date , it must be understood to be correct within two or three years ; where a mark of interrogation is annexed , the date is only offered as an approximation ...
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... readers as a hopeless attempt , to search for these sources of amusement and information , amidst the obscurity of a ... reader , to preface it by a few general remarks on this part of the subject . It is well known that our English is a ...
... readers as a hopeless attempt , to search for these sources of amusement and information , amidst the obscurity of a ... reader , to preface it by a few general remarks on this part of the subject . It is well known that our English is a ...
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... reader , how- ever , who shall take even a cursory survey of the extracts which gave rise to this remark , will pro bably be convinced , that these changes in the Saxon consist solely in the extinction of its ancient grammatical ...
... reader , how- ever , who shall take even a cursory survey of the extracts which gave rise to this remark , will pro bably be convinced , that these changes in the Saxon consist solely in the extinction of its ancient grammatical ...
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