Practical Modern English, Volume 3University of London Press, 1949 |
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... extremely elaborate , with much alliteration , many fantastic similes , and a great number of classical allusions . Although it was ridiculed by Shakespeare in his earlier plays , it is nevertheless extremely interesting , for it is the ...
... extremely elaborate , with much alliteration , many fantastic similes , and a great number of classical allusions . Although it was ridiculed by Shakespeare in his earlier plays , it is nevertheless extremely interesting , for it is the ...
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... extremely poor at this time and he relates in his Autobiography how he suffered during his youth . In 1834 he obtained a clerkship in the General Post Office , London , where he remained for seven years . Then he was transferred to ...
... extremely poor at this time and he relates in his Autobiography how he suffered during his youth . In 1834 he obtained a clerkship in the General Post Office , London , where he remained for seven years . Then he was transferred to ...
Page 266
... extremely poor during much of his working life and , although anxious to spend his time wholly on writing , he had to support himself and did so as a clerk in Liverpool and later as a poorly - paid teacher in London and for a time in ...
... extremely poor during much of his working life and , although anxious to spend his time wholly on writing , he had to support himself and did so as a clerk in Liverpool and later as a poorly - paid teacher in London and for a time in ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE ANGLOSAXONS | 9 |
THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND AFTER | 18 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY | 24 |
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