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... according to the modern standard , but it would be unjust to blame Goethe for using them . The laws of German metre were not nearly so much settled and developed as they are in our time , and moreover Goethe and Schiller intentionally ...
... according to the modern standard , but it would be unjust to blame Goethe for using them . The laws of German metre were not nearly so much settled and developed as they are in our time , and moreover Goethe and Schiller intentionally ...
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... according to general rule , always omitted in those verbs of the strong de- clension , in which the radical vowel undergoes the process of modification and brechung . 72. verderblich , ' causing ruin ' . The same statement would be in ...
... according to general rule , always omitted in those verbs of the strong de- clension , in which the radical vowel undergoes the process of modification and brechung . 72. verderblich , ' causing ruin ' . The same statement would be in ...
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... according to the old German custom , which still survives in some parts of the country . 169. bohnen is to polish up with bees ' - wax and turpentine mixed together . 171. The host and the clergyman are inclined to ' drive away care ...
... according to the old German custom , which still survives in some parts of the country . 169. bohnen is to polish up with bees ' - wax and turpentine mixed together . 171. The host and the clergyman are inclined to ' drive away care ...
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... according to a well - known German idiom , Aue § 334 . 79. It was a pleasant occupation to give all to such a fair receiver . Then it was no doubt that Hermann would look very closely into her eyes and imprint her shape and mien upon ...
... according to a well - known German idiom , Aue § 334 . 79. It was a pleasant occupation to give all to such a fair receiver . Then it was no doubt that Hermann would look very closely into her eyes and imprint her shape and mien upon ...
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... according to modern usage . 166. Aller Anfang ist schwer is a proverbial expression ; Goethe says in another place ( quoted by Grimm , Wörterb . I , 324 ) : aller Anfang ist schwer : das mag in einem gewissen Sinne wahr sein ...
... according to modern usage . 166. Aller Anfang ist schwer is a proverbial expression ; Goethe says in another place ( quoted by Grimm , Wörterb . I , 324 ) : aller Anfang ist schwer : das mag in einem gewissen Sinne wahr sein ...
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17 Paternoster Row according adverb alliteration amphimacer apothecary appears Cambridge character clergyman cloth College common commonly Comp compound country course dactyl Demy Octavo denotes diminutive Dorothea Dorothea's doubt English Examination expresses expression father Fellow first French fürwahr generally genitive German given Goethe Goethe's good great Greek Hand Haus Hauſe heart Hermann Hermann's herrlichen Herz Homeric house instance instead Isaac Barrow iſt Jüngling Kinder language less life line love Mädchen make Mann meaning means Menschen merely mother Mutter no doubt noun Observe passage perhaps phrase place poem poet poetical prefer present properly prose prose we should read sagte same says second see Aue ſein sense sentence ſich ſie sogleich Sohn spondee St John's College style take things thought time Trinity College Tripos understand understood University University of Cambridge unsern unusual used usual Vater verb versezte Wagen weiß whole Wöchnerin wohl word work Worte years
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