The Dean's English: A Criticism on the Dean of Canterbury's Essays on the Queen's EnglishHatchard and Company, 1865 - 180 pages |
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... poems by Henry Alford , Dean of Canterbury ; a volume published , not in America , but in this country , by Rivingtons of Pall Mall . The following is a specimen taken from RECENT POEMS " . Two verses will his suffice . RECENT POEMS . A ...
... poems by Henry Alford , Dean of Canterbury ; a volume published , not in America , but in this country , by Rivingtons of Pall Mall . The following is a specimen taken from RECENT POEMS " . Two verses will his suffice . RECENT POEMS . A ...
Page 48
... poems as with people , -i.e . , that a temporary resi- dence abroad occasions them to acquire habits of pronunciation , & c . , not easily thrown off on a return to the mother country : and yet , if this be not what the preface means ...
... poems as with people , -i.e . , that a temporary resi- dence abroad occasions them to acquire habits of pronunciation , & c . , not easily thrown off on a return to the mother country : and yet , if this be not what the preface means ...
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... poems which you added to the American edition were the products of " later years " , it was not un- natural for me to believe they were those headed " RECENT POEMS " : and it was from them that my quotations were made . Besides , you ...
... poems which you added to the American edition were the products of " later years " , it was not un- natural for me to believe they were those headed " RECENT POEMS " : and it was from them that my quotations were made . Besides , you ...
Page 92
... poems the " nucleus ” and leave only 29 pages at the end , to come under the description of " conglobated " matter " ! However , even in those few pages of English printing , which , accord- ing to your own confession , were under your ...
... poems the " nucleus ” and leave only 29 pages at the end , to come under the description of " conglobated " matter " ! However , even in those few pages of English printing , which , accord- ing to your own confession , were under your ...
Page 104
... poem : - " This poem is , in our judg- ment , from its confused and tortuous ( ( ( ( style of expression , the most illegible " production of any time or country . Every kind of obscurity is to be found " in it . Infinitives without ...
... poem : - " This poem is , in our judg- ment , from its confused and tortuous ( ( ( ( style of expression , the most illegible " production of any time or country . Every kind of obscurity is to be found " in it . Infinitives without ...
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