A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as Well as a Companion and Guide for Private Students, and for General ReadersLee & Shepard, 1871 - 608 pages |
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Page x
... learned to his cost in the courts . This , of course , is not intended as an exact statement ; very many Latin words were probably used before the Romans abandoned the island which were afterwards forgotten during the long domination of ...
... learned to his cost in the courts . This , of course , is not intended as an exact statement ; very many Latin words were probably used before the Romans abandoned the island which were afterwards forgotten during the long domination of ...
Page xvii
... learned the vital sig- nificance of oxygen and the multifarious uses of carbon . And phre- nology , though it may be denied the rank of an exact science , has furnished us with many convenient forms of expression which could not now be ...
... learned the vital sig- nificance of oxygen and the multifarious uses of carbon . And phre- nology , though it may be denied the rank of an exact science , has furnished us with many convenient forms of expression which could not now be ...
Page xix
... learned or antiquated style , as Shenstone has done in The Schoolmistress . In critical writings the use of foreign terms and of words derived from the classic languages is not a blemish , unless the habit is carried to the extreme ...
... learned or antiquated style , as Shenstone has done in The Schoolmistress . In critical writings the use of foreign terms and of words derived from the classic languages is not a blemish , unless the habit is carried to the extreme ...
Page xxi
... learned the language of the common people , and doubtless enjoyed the Canter- bury Tales with a keen relish ; but to the multitude they must have appeared as affected and unintelligible as a society novel spiced with plentiful French ...
... learned the language of the common people , and doubtless enjoyed the Canter- bury Tales with a keen relish ; but to the multitude they must have appeared as affected and unintelligible as a society novel spiced with plentiful French ...
Page xxiv
... made either of the pregnant sentences of Bacon , the learned profusion of Jeremy Taylor , or of the pungent lines of any of the great galaxy of dramatists . And with all our gains from modern science , it is χχίν HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION .
... made either of the pregnant sentences of Bacon , the learned profusion of Jeremy Taylor , or of the pungent lines of any of the great galaxy of dramatists . And with all our gains from modern science , it is χχίν HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION .
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