Nugae metricaeOxford University Press, 1824 - 89 pages |
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... language would indeed have suffi- ciently proved , had history been wholly silent . The local no- menclature of Cornwall is , at this day , almost entirely Celtic . In most other parts of England , the rivers and mountains have ...
... language would indeed have suffi- ciently proved , had history been wholly silent . The local no- menclature of Cornwall is , at this day , almost entirely Celtic . In most other parts of England , the rivers and mountains have ...
Page 83
... language , as well as in laws and manners , and retaining in their new settlements , like other colonists , ancient and modern , the appellations endeared to them by the recollections of their parent country . a Caesar , I. 1. and V. 10 ...
... language , as well as in laws and manners , and retaining in their new settlements , like other colonists , ancient and modern , the appellations endeared to them by the recollections of their parent country . a Caesar , I. 1. and V. 10 ...
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... language , how could the writer of an English Dictionary be ignorant that the ready conversion of our substantives into verbs , participles , and participial adjectives , is of the very essence of our own tongue , derived to it from its ...
... language , how could the writer of an English Dictionary be ignorant that the ready conversion of our substantives into verbs , participles , and participial adjectives , is of the very essence of our own tongue , derived to it from its ...
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... language . Sugared is an epithet frequent in our ancient poetry ; and its use was probably long anterior to that of the verb of which it now appears to be a participle . But that verb has since been fully adopted into our language . We ...
... language . Sugared is an epithet frequent in our ancient poetry ; and its use was probably long anterior to that of the verb of which it now appears to be a participle . But that verb has since been fully adopted into our language . We ...
Page 88
... language . His criticism therefore recoils on himself . The poet has fol- lowed the usage of his native tongue , and the example of its best writers ; the grammarian appears unacquainted both with its practice and principles . The ...
... language . His criticism therefore recoils on himself . The poet has fol- lowed the usage of his native tongue , and the example of its best writers ; the grammarian appears unacquainted both with its practice and principles . The ...
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