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... Æneid , but took them from existing sources , and presented them with but little change . Accumulative invention is found , first , in narratives made up of facts of actual occurrence , with which the writer has be- come acquainted in ...
... Æneid , but took them from existing sources , and presented them with but little change . Accumulative invention is found , first , in narratives made up of facts of actual occurrence , with which the writer has be- come acquainted in ...
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... Æneid the quantity of the syllables may be made apparent . § 579. ALLITERATION . 3. This was used by the Teutonic nations in their early poetry . Similar initial sounds were given to emphatic words . or syllables , two of which were ...
... Æneid the quantity of the syllables may be made apparent . § 579. ALLITERATION . 3. This was used by the Teutonic nations in their early poetry . Similar initial sounds were given to emphatic words . or syllables , two of which were ...
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... Æneid , the Divina Com- media , Gerusalemme Liberata , the Lusiad , and Paradise Lost . To these may be added the Indian Mahabharata , the Spanish Cid , the German Nibelungen - Lied , and the Anglo - Saxon ( or Danish ) Beowulf . 2. The ...
... Æneid , the Divina Com- media , Gerusalemme Liberata , the Lusiad , and Paradise Lost . To these may be added the Indian Mahabharata , the Spanish Cid , the German Nibelungen - Lied , and the Anglo - Saxon ( or Danish ) Beowulf . 2. The ...
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PERSPICUITY IN WORDS SIMPLICITY 17 | xix |
PERSPICUITY IN WORDS CONTINUED PRECISION | 27 |
PERSPICUITY IN Words Continued Purity | 41 |
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