The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 páginas |
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... force : they made their Norman - French the fashionable speech of the court and the aristocracy , and imposed it on the tribunals and the legislature ; and their romantic literature soon weaned the hearts of educated men from the ...
... force : they made their Norman - French the fashionable speech of the court and the aristocracy , and imposed it on the tribunals and the legislature ; and their romantic literature soon weaned the hearts of educated men from the ...
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... by no force but that of honest conviction , through no agency but that of un- fettered writing and speech . We and our fathers , gazing with eagerness , have gazed also in safety on that wild 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 25.
... by no force but that of honest conviction , through no agency but that of un- fettered writing and speech . We and our fathers , gazing with eagerness , have gazed also in safety on that wild 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 25.
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... force , with a singularly striking air of ghostly wildness , in a much longer piece , a legend of Saint Augustin , the apostle of the Saxons in England . Students in foreign literature will be interested in observing that , in the ...
... force , with a singularly striking air of ghostly wildness , in a much longer piece , a legend of Saint Augustin , the apostle of the Saxons in England . Students in foreign literature will be interested in observing that , in the ...
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... should hardly have looked . The prevalent calmness of tone and sobriety of judgment give , by contrast , additional force to the animated • passages describing warfare and peril . Several of these IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY . 93.
... should hardly have looked . The prevalent calmness of tone and sobriety of judgment give , by contrast , additional force to the animated • passages describing warfare and peril . Several of these IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY . 93.
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... force , ordered his band to turn and face the enemy , rather than abandon to them a poor woman who had been seized with illness . There are likewise not a few pleasing fragments of landscape - painting : and one of these is made ...
... force , ordered his band to turn and face the enemy , rather than abandon to them a poor woman who had been seized with illness . There are likewise not a few pleasing fragments of landscape - painting : and one of these is made ...
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