Life in English Literature: An Introduction for Beginners, Volumes 1-3Methuen, 1949 - 535 pages |
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Page 15
... English writer whose language we can readily recognise as our own , was born in or about 1340 , and died on October ... English of the poems we shall read is therefore more than five hundred years old . That in itself would prepare us to ...
... English writer whose language we can readily recognise as our own , was born in or about 1340 , and died on October ... English of the poems we shall read is therefore more than five hundred years old . That in itself would prepare us to ...
Page 59
... English as long as there have been any English people to read it . But no translation can replace the Authorised Version . Those forty - seven men , with the help of the dead Wyclif and Tyndale and Coverdale , made a book whose ...
... English as long as there have been any English people to read it . But no translation can replace the Authorised Version . Those forty - seven men , with the help of the dead Wyclif and Tyndale and Coverdale , made a book whose ...
Page 62
... English men and English society at the time which we call the Renais- sance . Before this time , English society was still semi- barbarous , and even now , when great heights of culture were reached , the old barbarism was by no means ...
... English men and English society at the time which we call the Renais- sance . Before this time , English society was still semi- barbarous , and even now , when great heights of culture were reached , the old barbarism was by no means ...
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