A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... specimens of Anglo - Saxon , while the younger was the author of the " Paraphrase . " The principal fragmentary Anglo ... specimen of Anglo - Saxon verse : - Tha of roderum wæs . Engel ælbeorht . Ufan onsended . Wlite scyne wer . On his ...
... specimens of Anglo - Saxon , while the younger was the author of the " Paraphrase . " The principal fragmentary Anglo ... specimen of Anglo - Saxon verse : - Tha of roderum wæs . Engel ælbeorht . Ufan onsended . Wlite scyne wer . On his ...
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... specimen of the style of thought common in an unripe age . Mandeville , roving again from England , died and was buried at Liège in 1372 . The following extract is from the seventh chapter of his Travels , entitled , " Of the ...
... specimen of the style of thought common in an unripe age . Mandeville , roving again from England , died and was buried at Liège in 1372 . The following extract is from the seventh chapter of his Travels , entitled , " Of the ...
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... SPECIMEN OF WYCLIFFE'S PROSE . PART OF LUKE XXIV . But in o day of the woke ful eerli thei camen to the graue , and broughten swete smelling spices that thei hadden arayed . And thei founden the stoon turnyd awey fro the graue . And ...
... SPECIMEN OF WYCLIFFE'S PROSE . PART OF LUKE XXIV . But in o day of the woke ful eerli thei camen to the graue , and broughten swete smelling spices that thei hadden arayed . And thei founden the stoon turnyd awey fro the graue . And ...
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... specimens of nearly every character then common in the streets and homes of England . After the Prologue has described ... specimen of Chaucer's power in that kind of writing . Nothing could surpass the " Canterbury Tales , " as a series ...
... specimens of nearly every character then common in the streets and homes of England . After the Prologue has described ... specimen of Chaucer's power in that kind of writing . Nothing could surpass the " Canterbury Tales , " as a series ...
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... specimen of classical English prose . The character of Richard III . is here painted in the darkest colours . But More's Utopia has had a wider fame . In flowing Latin he describes the happy state of an island , which is discovered by ...
... specimen of classical English prose . The character of Richard III . is here painted in the darkest colours . But More's Utopia has had a wider fame . In flowing Latin he describes the happy state of an island , which is discovered by ...
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