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Page viii
... says , the most unfortunate day for him , the meanest and most niggardly day that in his long experience he has ever come across , and he would like to punch its head . He has tried to screw an invitation out of the young men in the ...
... says , the most unfortunate day for him , the meanest and most niggardly day that in his long experience he has ever come across , and he would like to punch its head . He has tried to screw an invitation out of the young men in the ...
Page ix
... says , was to his young master with whom he had lived all his life and who had been specially committed to his care , and if he must die he will die in the consciousness of having done what he ought . This lofty tone does not tend to ...
... says , was to his young master with whom he had lived all his life and who had been specially committed to his care , and if he must die he will die in the consciousness of having done what he ought . This lofty tone does not tend to ...
Page xvii
... says , Sat. I. X. 42 , Pollio regum Facta canit pede ter percusso , alluding to the Iambic Trimeter , which was the usual metre of 1 Ramsay , Lat . Pros . p . 270 . 2 Hor . A. P. 253 . 41 42 43 Tragedy . Hence that part of the THE ...
... says , Sat. I. X. 42 , Pollio regum Facta canit pede ter percusso , alluding to the Iambic Trimeter , which was the usual metre of 1 Ramsay , Lat . Pros . p . 270 . 2 Hor . A. P. 253 . 41 42 43 Tragedy . Hence that part of the THE ...
Page xx
... says that the final iambus is never preceded in Pl . by an iambic word or a cretic word or a word ending in a cretic . ( iv ) tribrachs are much less common in all metres than in Greek , three or more short syllables rarely occurring ...
... says that the final iambus is never preceded in Pl . by an iambic word or a cretic word or a word ending in a cretic . ( iv ) tribrachs are much less common in all metres than in Greek , three or more short syllables rarely occurring ...
Page xxxviii
... says of final m before a word beginning with a vowel , " neque enim eximitur sed obscuratur , et tantum aliqua inter duas uocales uelut nota est , ne ipsae coeant . " 2 Gellius , VII . 20 , quotes several instances from Homer . 91 sic ...
... says of final m before a word beginning with a vowel , " neque enim eximitur sed obscuratur , et tantum aliqua inter duas uocales uelut nota est , ne ipsae coeant . " 2 Gellius , VII . 20 , quotes several instances from Homer . 91 sic ...
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