The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 153
... Milton sound the rhymes of this couplet in the L'Allegro ? - ' With stories told of many a feat , How fairy Mab the junkets eat . ' Must we not suppose that eat being in the preterite , and equivalent to ate , had a sound unlike our ...
... Milton sound the rhymes of this couplet in the L'Allegro ? - ' With stories told of many a feat , How fairy Mab the junkets eat . ' Must we not suppose that eat being in the preterite , and equivalent to ate , had a sound unlike our ...
Pagina 181
... Milton , Areopagitica . But if the purchase costs so dear a price As soothing Folly or exalting Vice , Alexander Pope , Temple of Fame , 515 . ' Disbanded legions freely might depart , And slaying men would cease to be an art ...
... Milton , Areopagitica . But if the purchase costs so dear a price As soothing Folly or exalting Vice , Alexander Pope , Temple of Fame , 515 . ' Disbanded legions freely might depart , And slaying men would cease to be an art ...
Pagina 184
... Milton , Paradise Lost , vi . 654 , ' And on their heads Main promontories flung . ' We have an example of a different kind in the word cheap . This originally was a substantive , meaning market , and the expression ' good cheap ' meant ...
... Milton , Paradise Lost , vi . 654 , ' And on their heads Main promontories flung . ' We have an example of a different kind in the word cheap . This originally was a substantive , meaning market , and the expression ' good cheap ' meant ...
Pagina 185
... ap- peared as a verb . As an adjective it appears in 6 The frolic wind . ' John Milton . The gay , the frolic , and the loud . ' Edmund Waller . As a substantive it appears not only in a quotation OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH . 185.
... ap- peared as a verb . As an adjective it appears in 6 The frolic wind . ' John Milton . The gay , the frolic , and the loud . ' Edmund Waller . As a substantive it appears not only in a quotation OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH . 185.
Pagina 235
... Milton , Paradise Lost , vi . 219 : — ' All Heaven Resounded , and had Earth been then , all Earth Had to her Center sbook . ' And Edmund Burke , while at Dublin College , writing to an old schoolfellow , says , - ' You ask me if I read ...
... Milton , Paradise Lost , vi . 219 : — ' All Heaven Resounded , and had Earth been then , all Earth Had to her Center sbook . ' And Edmund Burke , while at Dublin College , writing to an old schoolfellow , says , - ' You ask me if I read ...
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