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... would be allowed to use . We shall not be far wrong in contending that but very few expressions of Hermann and Dorothea could be retained , if we were to turn the poem into prose , or even into the modern style of poetry . Just as a ...
... would be allowed to use . We shall not be far wrong in contending that but very few expressions of Hermann and Dorothea could be retained , if we were to turn the poem into prose , or even into the modern style of poetry . Just as a ...
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... would be very difficult to discover the ... prose and poetry . The usual order ich habe doch ' I have after all ' would ... should say einen Weg gehen ( the acc . of complement ) , we have also the phrase einen Weg ziehen , to I. ...
... would be very difficult to discover the ... prose and poetry . The usual order ich habe doch ' I have after all ' would ... should say einen Weg gehen ( the acc . of complement ) , we have also the phrase einen Weg ziehen , to I. ...
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... prose we should prefer the compound : im heißen Mittagsstaube . 8. sich rühren , ' to budge ' or ' to stir ' . The prosaic arrangement would be : möcht ' ich mich doch nicht vom Plaß rühren ( surely , I should not like to ... ) , um das ...
... prose we should prefer the compound : im heißen Mittagsstaube . 8. sich rühren , ' to budge ' or ' to stir ' . The prosaic arrangement would be : möcht ' ich mich doch nicht vom Plaß rühren ( surely , I should not like to ... ) , um das ...
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... prose it would be zu seiner Frau , but in the poetic style the possessive ... We should observe that it is the thrifty housewife who uses this expression ... we read below 2 , 47 . corresponds more closely to the E. naked ...
... prose it would be zu seiner Frau , but in the poetic style the possessive ... We should observe that it is the thrifty housewife who uses this expression ... we read below 2 , 47 . corresponds more closely to the E. naked ...
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... we should substitute erhalten . 35. Wohl , ' but let it be ' .— ter Mann may ... would , therefore , be correct to say Pantoffel und Müße sind verbannt ... prose an dem , was man mir erzählt . 44. mit Nachdruck , ' emphatically ...
... we should substitute erhalten . 35. Wohl , ' but let it be ' .— ter Mann may ... would , therefore , be correct to say Pantoffel und Müße sind verbannt ... prose an dem , was man mir erzählt . 44. mit Nachdruck , ' emphatically ...
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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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