Chapter 1 of Elfin music is here in full — 258 sentences across 52 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Elfin music is here in full — 258 sentences across 52 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The Canterbury Poets. EDITED BY WILLIAM SHARP. ELFIN MUSIC. ELFIN MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH FAIRY POETRY. SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
Chapter 1 of Elfin music is here in full — 258 sentences across 52 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a collection of selected literary passages
From this reading “ELFIN MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH FAIRY POETRY.”
a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church
From this reading “The Canterbury Poets.”
improved or corrected by critical editing
From this reading “EDITED BY WILLIAM SHARP.”
suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
From this reading “ELFIN MUSIC.”
the act of beginning something new
From this reading “SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.”
plural of “poet” — a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading “The Canterbury Poets.”
chosen in preference to another
From this reading “SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.”
United States jurist who was appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1874 by President Grant (1816-1888)
From this reading “SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
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the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading ELFIN MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH FAIRY POETRY.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
a collection of selected literary passages
From this reading ELFIN MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH FAIRY POETRY.
disposed or placed in a particular kind of order
From this reading SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)
From this reading SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading EDITED BY WILLIAM SHARP.
a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church
From this reading The Canterbury Poets.
improved or corrected by critical editing
From this reading EDITED BY WILLIAM SHARP.
King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972)
From this reading SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
From this reading ELFIN MUSIC.
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
From this reading ELFIN MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH FAIRY POETRY.
a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
From this reading ELFIN MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH FAIRY POETRY.
the act of beginning something new
From this reading SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
From this reading ELFIN MUSIC.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading ELFIN MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH FAIRY POETRY.
literature in metrical form
From this reading ELFIN MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH FAIRY POETRY.
plural of “poet” — a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading The Canterbury Poets.
chosen in preference to another
From this reading SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
(of something seen or heard) clearly defined
From this reading EDITED BY WILLIAM SHARP.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Canterbury Poets.
United States jurist who was appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1874 by President Grant (1816-1888)
From this reading SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
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From this reading EDITED BY WILLIAM SHARP.
in the company of; together with
From this reading SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
Chapter 1 of Elfin music by Arthur Edward [Compiler] Waite holds 258 sentences, grouped into 52 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 258 sentences of Elfin music, unabridged, divided into 52 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Elfin music by Arthur Edward [Compiler] Waite exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 258 sentences, grouped into 52 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
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