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Excerpt from Fairmount Park, and Other Poems With Historical Notes
Thy lordly lawns around me. But an adverbial phrase in the nominative absolute is obscure to many. This is one of the drawbacks of a weakly inflected language. In Sanskrit and Pali, Greek and Latin, the phrase would be perfectly clear, being in the locative absolute in the first two, and in the genitive and ablative respectively in the two last. Verse 4. Line 5. Some would prefer: No vile commercial blazon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
