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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... Milton: Essays 74 Poems 105 Mitchell 27 More 58 Murfree 124 Nashe 11 Palgrave 20 Parkman 63 Pepys 188 Pope 33 Eives 77 Kuskin 140 Scott: Ivanhoe 88 Marmion 32 Shakespeare 52 Sidney 23 Spenser 18 Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll 17 Prince Otto 42 Swift 57 Thackeray: Henry Esmond 216 Vanity Fair 187 Walpole 26 Walton 108 Whipple 26 Total.....,..,........................ 4744 IV. The Case Op The Absolute Participle In Middle And Modern English. The case of the absolute participle differs with the language. The Sanskrit uses the locative, the Greek the genitive, and the Latin the ablative, while the Teutonic languages use the dative. In Anglo-Saxon " the normal absolute case is the dative." In French the case is the accusative, and in Italian there is an interchange between the nominative and the accusative. What, then, is the case of the absolute participle in Middle and Modern English? Obviously, according to history and analogy, it should be oblique in form and signification. But in later Middle English and in Modern English the form at least is nominative. The question, therefore, arises, Has there been a change of signification as well as a change of form? Before, attempting to answer this, let us try to find out when this change of form took place. In entering upon such an investigation as this we are confronted with two difficulties. In the first place, it is impossible to arrive at absolute certainty in regard to the question in point until the whole of Middle English literature has been sifted for examples; but in the nature of things, this could not be done in the limits of time assigned to this work. Again, the only place where we can clearly distinguish the case of the absolute participle in Middle English is when the participle is used with a pronoun as sub...
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