History of English Literature: From the fourteenth century to the death of Surrey, ed. by A. Brandl, tr. by L. Dora SchmitzG. Bell, 1902 |
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... language ; he was cautious enough simply to omit the more obscure passages from the Scriptures which he found quoted in his originals . In the Lives of these Saints -three of whom are Belgian women of the twelfth and thirteenth ...
... language ; he was cautious enough simply to omit the more obscure passages from the Scriptures which he found quoted in his originals . In the Lives of these Saints -three of whom are Belgian women of the twelfth and thirteenth ...
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... language , and in many cases the con- tents , experienced all sorts of modifications and amplifica- tions , and in the course of time even the arrangement of the parts was altered . About a generation after the version made by Mirkus ...
... language , and in many cases the con- tents , experienced all sorts of modifications and amplifica- tions , and in the course of time even the arrangement of the parts was altered . About a generation after the version made by Mirkus ...
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... language , but we find , above all , the same depth of insight , the same intensity of emotion . But what in Suso appears linked with a youthful exuber- ance of poetic feeling , and thus - like everything visionary on the borderland ...
... language , but we find , above all , the same depth of insight , the same intensity of emotion . But what in Suso appears linked with a youthful exuber- ance of poetic feeling , and thus - like everything visionary on the borderland ...
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... language as early as the reign of Henry VI . It seems almost likely that Marguerite of Anjou , or some one in her immediate sur- roundings , may have suggested the work . This princess , who in 1445 became King Henry's wife , had ...
... language as early as the reign of Henry VI . It seems almost likely that Marguerite of Anjou , or some one in her immediate sur- roundings , may have suggested the work . This princess , who in 1445 became King Henry's wife , had ...
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... languages of Europe . The enormous amount of material , and the numerous differences in the various texts or groups of texts , render it very difficult to solve any of the questions connected with the work and its author . From the ...
... languages of Europe . The enormous amount of material , and the numerous differences in the various texts or groups of texts , render it very difficult to solve any of the questions connected with the work and its author . From the ...
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