ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY GEORGE P. MARSH FIRST SERIES "What! craue you wine, and haue NILUS to drinke of?" REVISED AND ENLarged edition. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. 1135 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by CHARLES SCRIBNER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of COPYRIGHT, 1884, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. EDWARD O. JENKINS' SONS, NEW YORK. TO MY DEAR WIFE, CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, WHO DEVOTED TO ME HER YOUTH AND BEAUTY AND HAS GIVEN ME HER MATURER AGE, HAVING BEEN, FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS, MY EVER FAITHFUL AND MOST AFFECTIONATE COMPANION, MY WISEST COUNSELLOR AND MY MOST EFFICIENT AID, This Book, WHICH OWES, IN LARGE MEASURE, TO HER CULTURE AND HER TASTE WHATEVER IT MAY POSSESS OF CRITICAL AND ESTHETICAL MERIT, IS 6025 11120244 LOVINGLY AND REVERENTLY DEDICATED. |