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Displaying 1,854 digitized works or clusters of works
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1701
The theory of language.In two parts. Part I. Of the origin and general nature of speech. Part II. Of universal grammar. By James Beattie, LL.D. F.R.S.E. Professor Of Moral Philosophy And Logick In The Marishal College And University, Aberdeen; And Member Of The Zealand Society Of Arts And Sciences, Of The Literary And Philosophical Society Of Manchester, And Of The American Philosophical Society Of Philadelphia.
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1702
The theory of poetry in England;its development in doctrines and ideas from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century,
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1703
The theory of poetry,
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1704
The theory of sciences illustratedor the grounds and principles of the seven liberal arts Grammar Logick Rhetorick Musick Arithmetick Geometry Astronomy. Accurately Demonstrated and Reduced to Practice. With Variety of Questions, Problems and Propositions both Delightful and Profitable. By H. Curson, Gent.
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1705
Third and final series of bibliographical collections and notes on early English literature,1474-1700
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1706
Thought-symbolism and grammatic illusions:being a treatise on the nature, purpose and material of speech, and a demonstration of the unreality, the useless complexity, and the evil effects, of orthodox grammatic rules in general;
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1707
THOUGHTS concerning the ANTIENT DRAMA.The St. James's magazine. By Robert Lloyd, A.M.
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1708
Thoughts on elocution
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1709
Thoughts on the poets.
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1710
Three philological essays,chiefly translated from the German of John Christopher Adelung; Aulic Counsellor and First Librarian to the Elector of Saxony by A. F. M. Willich, M.D.
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1711
Three proper, and wittie, familiar letters: lately passed betvveene tvvo vniuersitie men: touching the earthquake in Aprill last, and our English refourmed versifyingWith the preface of a wellwiller to them both.
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1712
Tiw;
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1713
To Mr. T. S. in Vindication of Mr. Mil∣ton's Paradise lostMiscellaneous letters and essays on several subjects philosophical, moral, historical, critical, amorous, &c., in prose and verse
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1714
To my Honoured and Ingenious Friend Mr. Harrington, for the Modern Poets against the AncientsMiscellaneous letters and essays on several subjects philosophical, moral, historical, critical, amorous, &c., in prose and verse
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1715
The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or, The pleasures and miseries of the metropolis :a poem
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1716
The Towneley plays :re-edited from the unique ms.
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1717
Tradition and reaction in modern poetry,
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1718
A treatise of English particles,shewing much of the variety of their significations and uses in English: and how to render them into Latine according to the propriety and elegancy of that language. With a praxis upon the same.
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1719
A treatise of languages wherein are laid down the general principles of each, with proper rules to judge of their respective merits and excellence, and more particularly of the French and English.Wrote originally in French by Monsieur Du Tremblay, professor of languages in the Royal Academy of Angers in France. And now translated into English by M.H.
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1720
A treatise of the several measures used by Horace in his odes and epodesmade English from Aldus Manutius; together with some further observations on, and Explanations of the same; translated from the French of Mons. de Martignac, and Trait? de la Methode Latine de Mons. Lancelot; being very necessary for school-boys that read Horace, to give them a Thorow Knowledge of the Composition of all the different Odes of that Poet.
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1721
A treatise on English versification.
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1722
A treatise on Greek tragic metres:with the choric parts of Sophocles metrically arranged.
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1723
A treatise on the etymology and syntax of the English language.
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1724
A treatise on versification
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1725
A treatise on versification.
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1726
A treatise on vocal physiology and hygiene :with especial reference to the cultivation and preservation of the voice.
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1727
A treatise upon Greek accents.Translated from the Nouvelle methode Grecque, written by the Messieurs of Port-Royal. To which is prefixed, a character of the most valuable Greek authors.
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1728
The true and antient manner of reading Hebrew without pointsand the whole art of the Hebrew versification deduced from it. Both laid down in so plain a Way as to be easily learned in a few Days. By Th-s Cl-s: Midras iaoeus.
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1729
Two great Englishwomen, Mrs. Browning & Charlott Brontë :with an essay on poetry, illustrated from Wordsworth, Burns, and Byron
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1730
An universal grammar,for the use of those who are unacquainted with the learned languages, and are desirous of speaking and writing English, or any other Modern Language, with accuracy and precision. By Richard Wynne, A. M. Rector of St Alphage, London; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Dunmore.
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1731
The universal Libraryor, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein. In two volumes.
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1732
The universal spelling-bookor, a new and easy guide to the English language. ... By Daniel Fenning, ...
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1733
The Use of an Unstressed Extra-Metrical Syllable to Carry the RimeThe Modern language review.
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1734
The Use of Final -e in Early English, with especial reference to the final -e at the end of the verse in Chaucer's Canterbury TalesEssays on Chaucer, his words and works.
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1735
The Use of So-Called Classical Metres in Elizabethan Verse I.The Modern language quarterly.
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1736
The Use of So-Called Classical Metres in Elizabethan Verse II.The Modern language quarterly.
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1737
Verner's law in Italy,an essay in the history of the Indo-European sibilants,
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1738
Vers LibreNew Statesman.
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1739
The VerseAn account of the life, opinions, and writings of John Milton, with an introduction to Paradise lost.
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1740
The verse of Greek comedy
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1741
Versification of DonneThe literary remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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1742
Versification: The Music of SpeechThe realm of poetry; an introduction.
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1743
Versions from Hafiz;an essay in Persian metre,
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1744
The vestibule of eloquence:original articles oratorical and poetical, intended as exercises in recitation, at the Institution, Bedford Place, Russell Square
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1745
The Vicissitudes of Blank VerseThe London mercury.
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1746
The villain as hero in Elizabethan tragedy,
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1747
A vindication of the Appendix to the poems, called Rowley's,in reply to The answers of the Dean of Exeter, Jacob Bryant, Esquire, and a third anonymous writer; with some further observations upon those poems, and an examination of the evidence which has been produced in support of their authenticity; by Thomas Tyrwhitt.
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1748
Visible speech: a new fact demonstrated.
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1749
Visible speech:the science ... of universal alphabetics; or Self-interpreting physiological letters, for the writing of all languages in one alphabet.
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1750
The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman,together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, secundum Wit et Resoun,