A Hand-book of English Literature: Intended for the Use of High Schools, as Well as a Companion and Guide for Private Students, and for General ReadersLee and Shepard, 1878 |
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... writer well remembers the few and meagre collections of books in his native town . Excepting Scripture commen- taries , hymn books , and a few religious biographies , not always inviting to children of ardent temperament , the most ...
... writer well remembers the few and meagre collections of books in his native town . Excepting Scripture commen- taries , hymn books , and a few religious biographies , not always inviting to children of ardent temperament , the most ...
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... writers use the most Saxon words , and the student is often cautioned against the habit of using those of Latin origin . But the more rational advice is to use the words that best express our thoughts . The scholar that knows the ...
... writers use the most Saxon words , and the student is often cautioned against the habit of using those of Latin origin . But the more rational advice is to use the words that best express our thoughts . The scholar that knows the ...
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... writers reminds us of the satire in Hudibras : " A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect ; It was a party colored dress Of patched and pyebald languages ; ' Twas English cut on Greek and Latin , Like fustian heretofore on ...
... writers reminds us of the satire in Hudibras : " A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect ; It was a party colored dress Of patched and pyebald languages ; ' Twas English cut on Greek and Latin , Like fustian heretofore on ...
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... writer had gone through the poem guided by the instinct of a dull soul , and having rooted out every poetic blossom , held them up to ridicule as combinations for which there was no precedent , and therefore against the canons of good ...
... writer had gone through the poem guided by the instinct of a dull soul , and having rooted out every poetic blossom , held them up to ridicule as combinations for which there was no precedent , and therefore against the canons of good ...
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... writers before the year 1400 are only interesting to antiqua- rians , and their works do not come within the scope of a work so elementary as this . But even Chaucer had not a homogeneous public to address . The middle and lower classes ...
... writers before the year 1400 are only interesting to antiqua- rians , and their works do not come within the scope of a work so elementary as this . But even Chaucer had not a homogeneous public to address . The middle and lower classes ...
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