Notes and QueriesOxford University Press, 1886 |
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THE ' DECAMERON ' IN ENGLISH , A year or two ago I remember seeing a question asked in the Athen¿um whether there does not exist , or ever has existed , in Middle English a translation of Boccaccio's novels . The question was founded ...
THE ' DECAMERON ' IN ENGLISH , A year or two ago I remember seeing a question asked in the Athen¿um whether there does not exist , or ever has existed , in Middle English a translation of Boccaccio's novels . The question was founded ...
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... English firesides . I have not been able to find the passage , as the various editions are imperfectly indexed . If found it would add weight to the evidence that , either in the time of Paynter or before his time , there existed in English ...
... English firesides . I have not been able to find the passage , as the various editions are imperfectly indexed . If found it would add weight to the evidence that , either in the time of Paynter or before his time , there existed in English ...
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... English sense of a raised structure for a number of speakers , a sense unknown to dictionaries forty years ago . I think it ought to be found in accounts of Anti - Corn - Law or early teetotal meetings , or even , possibly , of ...
... English sense of a raised structure for a number of speakers , a sense unknown to dictionaries forty years ago . I think it ought to be found in accounts of Anti - Corn - Law or early teetotal meetings , or even , possibly , of ...
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... English as they can well be . The blending with arch¿ology of the imaginative and the sensuous in art is essentially Parisian , and is carried in these productions to the highest point . No more bril- liant series of illustrated works ...
... English as they can well be . The blending with arch¿ology of the imaginative and the sensuous in art is essentially Parisian , and is carried in these productions to the highest point . No more bril- liant series of illustrated works ...
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... English anti- quaries . The series will commence with Elias Ashmole , and will embrace Dugdale , Speed , Strype , Nichols , Sir Egerton Brydges , & c . THE Rev. Canon Charles Page Eden , Vicar of Aber- ford , near Leeds , a valued but ...
... English anti- quaries . The series will commence with Elias Ashmole , and will embrace Dugdale , Speed , Strype , Nichols , Sir Egerton Brydges , & c . THE Rev. Canon Charles Page Eden , Vicar of Aber- ford , near Leeds , a valued but ...
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