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... original materials of our language . It is true that these materials , in passing from the parent tongues into English , are likely to have undergone considerable changes in their appear- ance it may therefore be worth while to examine ...
... original materials of our language . It is true that these materials , in passing from the parent tongues into English , are likely to have undergone considerable changes in their appear- ance it may therefore be worth while to examine ...
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... original languages will be found to be very complicated in their mechanism , and full of varieties of termination and grammatical intricacy , but extremely limited in the number of their elementary and radical words . But although the ...
... original languages will be found to be very complicated in their mechanism , and full of varieties of termination and grammatical intricacy , but extremely limited in the number of their elementary and radical words . But although the ...
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... original tran- scribers or printers had assigned to them . Such are printed in italics , for the purpose of more easy reference to the glossarial notes , in which their meaning is explained or conjectured . After these short preliminary ...
... original tran- scribers or printers had assigned to them . Such are printed in italics , for the purpose of more easy reference to the glossarial notes , in which their meaning is explained or conjectured . After these short preliminary ...
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... original poetry of these nations should have been founded on a similar prosody ; particularly , as the harmony of all the modern languages depends much more upon accent and emphasis , that is to say , upon changes in the tone or in the ...
... original poetry of these nations should have been founded on a similar prosody ; particularly , as the harmony of all the modern languages depends much more upon accent and emphasis , that is to say , upon changes in the tone or in the ...
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... original , I am happy in being enabled , by the kindness of a friend , to subjoin a second and metrical version . This was written several years ago , during the controversy occasioned by the poems attributed to Rowley , and was ...
... original , I am happy in being enabled , by the kindness of a friend , to subjoin a second and metrical version . This was written several years ago , during the controversy occasioned by the poems attributed to Rowley , and was ...
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