A Dictionary of the English Language —— 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

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ISBN: 9780243435661 出版年：2016 页码：1,095 Samuel Johnson Forgotten Books

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