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Meaning of “I would there were…”?
What is the meaning of "I would there were", as in this quote from Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale"?
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or
that youth would sleep out ...
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“Two films don't a revolution make”: is this sentence grammatically correct? [duplicate]
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Why is “xxxx doth not a yyyy make” considered valid English?
Proper usage/origin of the generic phrase “[action phrase] does not a [noun] make”
“Dazzling ...
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What is the name for the grammatical device of putting “not” after a verb to negate it?
Here's a passage (more or less taken randomly) from the American Standard Version of the Bible from 1901:
1 Peter 3:14 (ASV)
14 But even if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed are ...
