A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... Johnson starving their way to fame : these are surely things of no slight interest and value to the earnest student of English Literature . to such this book is offered . And W. F. C. CONTENTS . THE PRE - ENGLISH ERA . Chap .
... Johnson starving their way to fame : these are surely things of no slight interest and value to the earnest student of English Literature . to such this book is offered . And W. F. C. CONTENTS . THE PRE - ENGLISH ERA . Chap .
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... Oxford at that date , and there lifted up his voice boldly against the corrupted doctrines and the swollen avarice of the Church . His fame led the rulers of England to send him , in 1374 , as 48 WYCLIFFE AT OLD ST . PAUL'S . envoy to.
... Oxford at that date , and there lifted up his voice boldly against the corrupted doctrines and the swollen avarice of the Church . His fame led the rulers of England to send him , in 1374 , as 48 WYCLIFFE AT OLD ST . PAUL'S . envoy to.
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... fame as a writer rests chiefly upon his Canterbury Tales . The idea of the poems is , perhaps , borrowed from the " Decameron " of Boccaccio , in which a hundred tales are supposed to be told after dinner by the persons spending ten ...
... fame as a writer rests chiefly upon his Canterbury Tales . The idea of the poems is , perhaps , borrowed from the " Decameron " of Boccaccio , in which a hundred tales are supposed to be told after dinner by the persons spending ten ...
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... Fame depicts a dream , in which the poet is borne by a huge eagle to a temple of beryl , built on a rock of ice , where he sees the Goddess of Fame dispensing her favours from a carbuncle throne . The Legende of Goode Women narrates ...
... Fame depicts a dream , in which the poet is borne by a huge eagle to a temple of beryl , built on a rock of ice , where he sees the Goddess of Fame dispensing her favours from a carbuncle throne . The Legende of Goode Women narrates ...
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... Fame's eternall beadroll worthy to be fyled , no less a literary judge than Hallam classes him with Dante and Petrarch in the great poetic triumvirate of the Middle Ages . The following are specimens of Chaucer's verse : -- " THE KNIGHT ...
... Fame's eternall beadroll worthy to be fyled , no less a literary judge than Hallam classes him with Dante and Petrarch in the great poetic triumvirate of the Middle Ages . The following are specimens of Chaucer's verse : -- " THE KNIGHT ...
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