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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... nature of the plan , according to which the materials are dis- posed , will appear from a glance at the Table of Contents . The History of English Literature being distributed into Two great Sec- tions , the First Part treats the ...
... nature of the plan , according to which the materials are dis- posed , will appear from a glance at the Table of Contents . The History of English Literature being distributed into Two great Sec- tions , the First Part treats the ...
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... nature of the matter , a less popular and amusing aspect than the other Parts . But the topic handled in these Philological Chapters is quite as important as those that occupy the Literary ones . The story which this part tells , should ...
... nature of the matter , a less popular and amusing aspect than the other Parts . But the topic handled in these Philological Chapters is quite as important as those that occupy the Literary ones . The story which this part tells , should ...
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... Nature of the Stories . - 9 . Uses of the Collections of Tales - Reading in Monasteries - Manuals for Preachers - Morals an- nexed in the Gesta - Specimens . - 10 . Use of the Latin Stories by the Poets - Chival- rous Romances taken ...
... Nature of the Stories . - 9 . Uses of the Collections of Tales - Reading in Monasteries - Manuals for Preachers - Morals an- nexed in the Gesta - Specimens . - 10 . Use of the Latin Stories by the Poets - Chival- rous Romances taken ...
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... natural enough , and , for a time , may have been harmless . But its effects were very different in those nations whose native dialects were quite alien to the Latin , our own being one of these . The use of the dead language made the ...
... natural enough , and , for a time , may have been harmless . But its effects were very different in those nations whose native dialects were quite alien to the Latin , our own being one of these . The use of the dead language made the ...
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... nature , which Christianity has been divinely appointed to create . The teaching of religion itself has always received from letters much of direct aid , in respect both of the materials which compose its lessons , and of the means ...
... nature , which Christianity has been divinely appointed to create . The teaching of religion itself has always received from letters much of direct aid , in respect both of the materials which compose its lessons , and of the means ...
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