The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets, Clergymen and Public Speakers

adjective Æneid Allan Ramsay's Scottish America Anglo-Saxon applied Artemus auld Ballad Beaumont and Fletcher beautiful Ben Jonson blow bonnie Border Burns called Cantab Chaucer cloth extra cloth gilt common corruption Crown 8vo Cursor Mundi derived Dictionary Edition English language English word Epistle Faerie Queene fair Fcap French Gaelic German Helenore Henry Humour illustrated cover John Jonson King Knight's Tale lady literature LONDON Lord lost meaning merry Minstrelsy Mirror for Magistrates modern word Morte Arthur never night north of England o'er obsolete original paper past participle Percy's Reliques person phrase PICCADILLY Piers Ploughman Poems poet poetry Polyolbion preterite preterite and past quoted by Halliwell quoted by Nares Ramsay Ramsay's Scottish Proverbs rhyme says Scotland Scottish Border sense Shakespeare Shanter signifies song speech Spenser sweet synonyme Tale thee thou Translation tree verb vulgar whence the modern wife wind writers