A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 páginas |
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... speak of the life of men , tender when they touch on the love of home , as tender as this little bit which still lives for us out of that old world : ' Dear is the welcome guest to the Frisian wife when the vessel strands ; his ship is ...
... speak of the life of men , tender when they touch on the love of home , as tender as this little bit which still lives for us out of that old world : ' Dear is the welcome guest to the Frisian wife when the vessel strands ; his ship is ...
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... literature French , yet the old blood prevailed in the end . The Norman felt his kindred with the English tongue and spirit , became an Englishman , and left the French tongue to speak and write in English . He , History . 37.
... literature French , yet the old blood prevailed in the end . The Norman felt his kindred with the English tongue and spirit , became an Englishman , and left the French tongue to speak and write in English . He , History . 37.
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... speak and write in English . He , too , was absorbed , and into English literature and speech were taken some French elements he had brought with him . It was a pro- cess slower in literature than it was in the political history , but ...
... speak and write in English . He , too , was absorbed , and into English literature and speech were taken some French elements he had brought with him . It was a pro- cess slower in literature than it was in the political history , but ...
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... speaking , from the 12th century till the middle of the 14th , there was no standard of English . The language , spoken only by the people , fell back into that broken state of anarchy in which each part of the country has its own ...
... speaking , from the 12th century till the middle of the 14th , there was no standard of English . The language , spoken only by the people , fell back into that broken state of anarchy in which each part of the country has its own ...
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... . These , written under the influence of French poetry , are classed under the name of Chaucer's first period . There are lines in them which seem to speak of a luckless love affair , and in 52 Literature of Period II . , 1066–1400 .
... . These , written under the influence of French poetry , are classed under the name of Chaucer's first period . There are lines in them which seem to speak of a luckless love affair , and in 52 Literature of Period II . , 1066–1400 .
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