A Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 of 2: In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different ... a History of the Language, and an English G - Rilegato

Johnson, Samuel

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ISBN 10: 026666718X ISBN 13: 9780266667186

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2018

Riassunto

Excerpt from A Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 of 2: In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples From the Best Writers; To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar

Of the Saxon poetry fome fpecimen is necel'fary, though our ignorance of the laws of their metre and the quantities of their fyllables, which it would be very difficult, perhaps impolfible, to recover, ex eludes us from that pleafure which the old bards undoubtedly gave to their contemporaries.

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Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 026666718X
• ISBN 13: 9780266667186
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 1098
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile