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... instance of equal truth to nature combined with the same amount of poetical power . In the same manner , the scene of the action is described so dis- tinctly and vividly , that even its smallest details are brought out , and that it is ...
... instance of equal truth to nature combined with the same amount of poetical power . In the same manner , the scene of the action is described so dis- tinctly and vividly , that even its smallest details are brought out , and that it is ...
Page xvi
... instances selected at random from the other cantos may be given here : Brachte die Schinken hervor , die schweren . ( 2 , 77- ) Seht nur das Haus an da drüben , das neue . ( 3 , 81. ) Hatte den Birnbaum im Auge , den großen . ( 4 , 53 ...
... instances selected at random from the other cantos may be given here : Brachte die Schinken hervor , die schweren . ( 2 , 77- ) Seht nur das Haus an da drüben , das neue . ( 3 , 81. ) Hatte den Birnbaum im Auge , den großen . ( 4 , 53 ...
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... instance , in which the genitive precedes the substantive on which it depends : der häuslichen Freuden ein Jahrstag . ( 1 , 205. ) It appears necessary to add a few words on metre and prosody . We do not intend to speak of the earliest ...
... instance , in which the genitive precedes the substantive on which it depends : der häuslichen Freuden ein Jahrstag . ( 1 , 205. ) It appears necessary to add a few words on metre and prosody . We do not intend to speak of the earliest ...
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... instances to be found in our best writers . 39. mit is an adverb , ' together with the others ' . Those who are the first to return may indeed rather have been lookers - on , than helpers . muß denotes a cogent conclusion : ' I should ...
... instances to be found in our best writers . 39. mit is an adverb , ' together with the others ' . Those who are the first to return may indeed rather have been lookers - on , than helpers . muß denotes a cogent conclusion : ' I should ...
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... instances . 114. verbirgt might seem to be said in the sense of birgt , which merely means ' contains in safety ' , but possibly the apothecary means that in a well - appointed house the single goods are , so to say , hidden and stowed ...
... instances . 114. verbirgt might seem to be said in the sense of birgt , which merely means ' contains in safety ' , but possibly the apothecary means that in a well - appointed house the single goods are , so to say , hidden and stowed ...
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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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