The Biglow Papers, Band 2Ticknor and Fields, 1867 - 175 Seiten |
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... letter to himself . When , more than twenty years ago , I wrote the first of the series , I had no definite plan and no intention of ever writing another . Thinking the Mexican war , as I think it still , a national crime committed in ...
... letter to himself . When , more than twenty years ago , I wrote the first of the series , I had no definite plan and no intention of ever writing another . Thinking the Mexican war , as I think it still , a national crime committed in ...
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... letters and diphthongs . And this opens a curious question as to how long this Gallicism maintained itself in England . Sometimes a divergence in pronunciation has given us two words with different meanings , as in genteel and jaunty ...
... letters and diphthongs . And this opens a curious question as to how long this Gallicism maintained itself in England . Sometimes a divergence in pronunciation has given us two words with different meanings , as in genteel and jaunty ...
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... Letters . Chaucer wrote hendy . Dryden rhymes can with men , as Mr. Biglow would . Alexander Gill , Milton's teacher , in his " Lagonomia , " cites hez for hath as peculiar to Lincolnshire . I find hayth in Collier's " Biblio- graphical ...
... Letters . Chaucer wrote hendy . Dryden rhymes can with men , as Mr. Biglow would . Alexander Gill , Milton's teacher , in his " Lagonomia , " cites hez for hath as peculiar to Lincolnshire . I find hayth in Collier's " Biblio- graphical ...
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... letter of Daborne to Henslowe , and also I shudder to mention it - in a letter of the great Duchess of Marlborough , Atossa herself ! It occurs twice in a single verse of the Chester Plays , which I copy as con- taining another ...
... letter of Daborne to Henslowe , and also I shudder to mention it - in a letter of the great Duchess of Marlborough , Atossa herself ! It occurs twice in a single verse of the Chester Plays , which I copy as con- taining another ...
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... letter to Winthrop . So the good man wrote them , and so the good descendants of his fellow - exiles still pronounce them . Purtend ( pretend ) has crept like a serpent into the " Paradise of Dainty De- vices ; " purvide , which is not ...
... letter to Winthrop . So the good man wrote them , and so the good descendants of his fellow - exiles still pronounce them . Purtend ( pretend ) has crept like a serpent into the " Paradise of Dainty De- vices ; " purvide , which is not ...
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