A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 205
... once began to give stability to common usage — such a man has an unassail- able place in the history of our tongue . Johnson's Dic- tionary is the basis on which all other lexicographers have worked ; it is the direct ancestor of the ...
... once began to give stability to common usage — such a man has an unassail- able place in the history of our tongue . Johnson's Dic- tionary is the basis on which all other lexicographers have worked ; it is the direct ancestor of the ...
Pagina 237
... once read becomes in a moment a familiar friend , Wordsworth , at his best , has no superior . Language can scarcely be at once more simple and more full of feeling than in these stanzas from one of the " Lucy poems " : Three years she ...
... once read becomes in a moment a familiar friend , Wordsworth , at his best , has no superior . Language can scarcely be at once more simple and more full of feeling than in these stanzas from one of the " Lucy poems " : Three years she ...
Pagina 293
... once known , or a line once treasured , was never forgotten . Both his parents were strong - minded " persons , and the intellectual progress of their son began almost at birth . He could read at the age of three . At seven , be began a ...
... once known , or a line once treasured , was never forgotten . Both his parents were strong - minded " persons , and the intellectual progress of their son began almost at birth . He could read at the age of three . At seven , be began a ...
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