The British Poets, Volume 2Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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... their name from the exactness of the line ; that kers , a water - cress , means a curse ; that lane implies a path so narrow as to render it necessary for passengers to go alane ; that a barbde hall and a barbde horse were so called ...
... their name from the exactness of the line ; that kers , a water - cress , means a curse ; that lane implies a path so narrow as to render it necessary for passengers to go alane ; that a barbde hall and a barbde horse were so called ...
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... their illustrious names will probably carry conviction to the minds of those readers who are unable or unwilling to decide the question themselves . Stevens and Ma- lone and Pinkerton , Jamieson and Herbert Croft , the author of " Love ...
... their illustrious names will probably carry conviction to the minds of those readers who are unable or unwilling to decide the question themselves . Stevens and Ma- lone and Pinkerton , Jamieson and Herbert Croft , the author of " Love ...
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... preted wrong , nothing more follows than that his glossaries were imperfect , or his knowledge inac- curate ; still , however , he might have had a con- fused , though not a complete idea of their import xvi HISTORY OF THE.
... preted wrong , nothing more follows than that his glossaries were imperfect , or his knowledge inac- curate ; still , however , he might have had a con- fused , though not a complete idea of their import xvi HISTORY OF THE.
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fused , though not a complete idea of their import . If , as the commentator asserts , the words that he has explained , not only suit the places in which they stand , but are often more apposite than he imagined , and have a latent and ...
fused , though not a complete idea of their import . If , as the commentator asserts , the words that he has explained , not only suit the places in which they stand , but are often more apposite than he imagined , and have a latent and ...
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... their modern origin . In the former , splendid descriptions , poetical imagery and ornamental comparisons occur but rarely ; while the latter are , throughout , poetical and ani- mated . Our old English bards abound in unnat- ural ...
... their modern origin . In the former , splendid descriptions , poetical imagery and ornamental comparisons occur but rarely ; while the latter are , throughout , poetical and ani- mated . Our old English bards abound in unnat- ural ...
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