Where to stop, and why: a treatise on the principles and practice of punctuation, by a profesisonal grammarian [W. Mills].1848 |
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Page 54 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
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