History of English Literature: From the fourteenth century to the death of Surrey, ed. by A. Brandl. tr. by I. Dora SchmitzG. Belland sons, 1902 |
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... German readers . In his Preface , * It has been found more convenient to issue the translation of the two Parts as Volume II . and Volume III . Dr. Brandl tells us that up to the end of -Lord Berners translates Froissart's Chronicle, ...
... German readers . In his Preface , * It has been found more convenient to issue the translation of the two Parts as Volume II . and Volume III . Dr. Brandl tells us that up to the end of -Lord Berners translates Froissart's Chronicle, ...
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... French prose - romances and Guevara's Boke of Marcus Aurelius . Berners ' nephew , Sir Francis Bryan , translates Guevara's Dis- braise of the life of a Courtier . Sir Thomas Elyot . His Boke of the Governour ; The education of children ...
... French prose - romances and Guevara's Boke of Marcus Aurelius . Berners ' nephew , Sir Francis Bryan , translates Guevara's Dis- braise of the life of a Courtier . Sir Thomas Elyot . His Boke of the Governour ; The education of children ...
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... French versions , and , indeed , from the earlier one by Jehan de Vignay , which he has followed carefully upon the whole , and in many passages word for word . French influence , together with that which proceeded from Latin sources ...
... French versions , and , indeed , from the earlier one by Jehan de Vignay , which he has followed carefully upon the whole , and in many passages word for word . French influence , together with that which proceeded from Latin sources ...
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... French priest , Jean Gallopes , surnamed le Galoys , and said to have been of English extraction , turned the first two " Pèlerinages " into prose towards the beginning of the fifteenth century ( previous to 1435 ) , having made use of ...
... French priest , Jean Gallopes , surnamed le Galoys , and said to have been of English extraction , turned the first two " Pèlerinages " into prose towards the beginning of the fifteenth century ( previous to 1435 ) , having made use of ...
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... French " Pylgremages " also appeared , the famous Dominican , Heinrich Suso , wrote his " Bόchlein der Weisheit , " which , during the Middle Ages , enjoyed an even wider circulation in Germany than the " De Imitatione Christi , a ...
... French " Pylgremages " also appeared , the famous Dominican , Heinrich Suso , wrote his " Bόchlein der Weisheit , " which , during the Middle Ages , enjoyed an even wider circulation in Germany than the " De Imitatione Christi , a ...
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