Studies in American LiteratureMacmillan, 1912 - 387 pages |
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... selection and use of words . Our modern dictionaries contain upwards of two hundred thousand words . Shakespeare , however , used only about fifteen thousand ; and it is safe to assume that not many authors have a much larger vocabulary ...
... selection and use of words . Our modern dictionaries contain upwards of two hundred thousand words . Shakespeare , however , used only about fifteen thousand ; and it is safe to assume that not many authors have a much larger vocabulary ...
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Charles Noble. Norman . differences in the selection of words . An author's Diction may be prevailingly Saxon or Norman ; Saxon or or , to go back closer to the sources , Germanic or Latin . English is to a great extent a composite of ...
Charles Noble. Norman . differences in the selection of words . An author's Diction may be prevailingly Saxon or Norman ; Saxon or or , to go back closer to the sources , Germanic or Latin . English is to a great extent a composite of ...
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... selection of words . The sentences may be prevail- ingly long or short ; or they may be judiciously alternated . We cannot fail to notice in Emerson , for example , a tendency to short sentences , as in Loose . the opening paragraphs of ...
... selection of words . The sentences may be prevail- ingly long or short ; or they may be judiciously alternated . We cannot fail to notice in Emerson , for example , a tendency to short sentences , as in Loose . the opening paragraphs of ...
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... selection is taken from a volume called " Observations concerning the Script- ure Oeconomy of the Trinity , " edited by Egbert C. Smyth , and published in 1880 : So that , when we are delighted with flowery meadows , and gentle breezes ...
... selection is taken from a volume called " Observations concerning the Script- ure Oeconomy of the Trinity , " edited by Egbert C. Smyth , and published in 1880 : So that , when we are delighted with flowery meadows , and gentle breezes ...
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... selection from any lover's rhapsody , besides the beauty and purity of thought and style , is the same consciousness of God , pervading every line . Besides sermons and pamphlets , Edwards ' pub- lished writings , with the dates of ...
... selection from any lover's rhapsody , besides the beauty and purity of thought and style , is the same consciousness of God , pervading every line . Besides sermons and pamphlets , Edwards ' pub- lished writings , with the dates of ...
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