[The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown]@TWC D-Link bookThe Grammar of English Grammars CHAPTER VII 23/56
The thirteen words in Italics are the only ones in this passage, which seem to have been derived from any other source. "Of man's first _disobedience_, and the _fruit_ Of that forbidden tree, whose _mortal_ taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of _Eden_; till one greater Man _Restore_ us, and _regain_ the blissful _seat_, Sing, heav'nly _Muse_, that on the _secret_ top Of _Oreb_, or of _Sinai_, didst _inspire_ That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of _Chaos_."-- MILTON: _Paradise Lost_, Book I. 23.
_Examples written during Cromwell's Protectorate, 1660 to 1650_. "The Queene was pleased to shew me the letter, the seale beinge a Roman eagle, havinge characters about it almost like the Greeke.
This day, in the afternoone, the vice-chauncellor came to me and stayed about four hours with me; in which tyme we conversed upon the longe debates."-- WHITELOCKE. _Bucke's Class.
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149. "I am yet heere, and have the States of Holland ingaged in a more than ordnary maner, to procure me audience of the States Generall.
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