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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... present day . The changes that have occurred in the language during this most recent period , appearing to be really nothing more than varieties of style , do not require a separate review , but receive in- cidental notice as they ...
... present day . The changes that have occurred in the language during this most recent period , appearing to be really nothing more than varieties of style , do not require a separate review , but receive in- cidental notice as they ...
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... present day there has elapsed a Period of three centuries and a half , which are the Modern Times of all Christendom . Let us take , at the opening of our studies , a bird's - eye view of the regions thus laid down on our historical map ...
... present day there has elapsed a Period of three centuries and a half , which are the Modern Times of all Christendom . Let us take , at the opening of our studies , a bird's - eye view of the regions thus laid down on our historical map ...
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... present bears us down heavily towards the earth : we are lifted upwards , though it may be but a short way , by all that prompts us to meditate on the past and the future . He to whom there has been hinted a striking general truth , or ...
... present bears us down heavily towards the earth : we are lifted upwards , though it may be but a short way , by all that prompts us to meditate on the past and the future . He to whom there has been hinted a striking general truth , or ...
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... present ; although they will be left out of view when we pass to those later periods , in which the Germanic population became decisively predominant in Great Britain . The first of the Celtic tongues has oftenest been called.
... present ; although they will be left out of view when we pass to those later periods , in which the Germanic population became decisively predominant in Great Britain . The first of the Celtic tongues has oftenest been called.
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... present shape , must have sprung from the traditions of an exceedingly rude and early generation . Frequently , both in the triads and in the bardic songs , allusions are made to the heroic Arthur . A Cymric prince of Wales or Cumbria ...
... present shape , must have sprung from the traditions of an exceedingly rude and early generation . Frequently , both in the triads and in the bardic songs , allusions are made to the heroic Arthur . A Cymric prince of Wales or Cumbria ...
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