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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... reason for writing in the living tongue , was no longer to be listened to : and the practice of freely publish- ing such knowledge to the laity was heretical in the eyes of those ecclesiastical chiefs , who now sat in the chairs of ...
... reason for writing in the living tongue , was no longer to be listened to : and the practice of freely publish- ing such knowledge to the laity was heretical in the eyes of those ecclesiastical chiefs , who now sat in the chairs of ...
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... reasons , it is 1196. believed that the character of the hero may have been invented , and that in all likelihood many of the poems were written , by Mapes ; a man of knowledge as well as wit and fancy , who might have been named as the ...
... reasons , it is 1196. believed that the character of the hero may have been invented , and that in all likelihood many of the poems were written , by Mapes ; a man of knowledge as well as wit and fancy , who might have been named as the ...
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... reason . It is called the " Gesta Romanorum , " or " Deeds of the Romans . " Manufactured into different shapes in different countries , and not having the same contents in any two of them , it is everywhere a medley of the most ...
... reason . It is called the " Gesta Romanorum , " or " Deeds of the Romans . " Manufactured into different shapes in different countries , and not having the same contents in any two of them , it is everywhere a medley of the most ...
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... reason ; since it is , in all likelihood , either wholly a production of his early manhood , or one of those plays which , in that stage of his life , he concocted by altering and augmenting older dramas . Further , our immortal poet's ...
... reason ; since it is , in all likelihood , either wholly a production of his early manhood , or one of those plays which , in that stage of his life , he concocted by altering and augmenting older dramas . Further , our immortal poet's ...
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... reason for doubting , that this was the first time the Bible was completely rendered into the English tongue . The date of the composition appears to have been soon after the year 1380. The translation is from the Latin Vulgate , the re ...
... reason for doubting , that this was the first time the Bible was completely rendered into the English tongue . The date of the composition appears to have been soon after the year 1380. The translation is from the Latin Vulgate , the re ...
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