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... Skeat assumes that " helpmate is a coinage due to a mistaken notion of the phrase ' an help meet , ' " and quotes in illus- tration a passage from Archbishop Sharp's sermons in which the archbishop says of Eve that God " created her ...
... Skeat assumes that " helpmate is a coinage due to a mistaken notion of the phrase ' an help meet , ' " and quotes in illus- tration a passage from Archbishop Sharp's sermons in which the archbishop says of Eve that God " created her ...
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... SKEAT having a bearing upon the point , two belong to the Chaucer era , one being Chaucer himself . They cannot be taken as criteria ; they are too much out of date , and the language was unformed then . Besides , these references ...
... SKEAT having a bearing upon the point , two belong to the Chaucer era , one being Chaucer himself . They cannot be taken as criteria ; they are too much out of date , and the language was unformed then . Besides , these references ...
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... SKEAT . 66 A MONUMENT TO A FLEA ( 9th S. ii . 526 ) .- Mr. Paton misread the inscription . Correctly read it is : The last residence of the affec- tionate Fly . " The monument was erected to a dog which belonged to an English lady ...
... SKEAT . 66 A MONUMENT TO A FLEA ( 9th S. ii . 526 ) .- Mr. Paton misread the inscription . Correctly read it is : The last residence of the affec- tionate Fly . " The monument was erected to a dog which belonged to an English lady ...
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Félibre 28Wollaston Arms 29Silhouettes | 32 |
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