History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers]William and Robert Chambers, 1857 - 294 páginas |
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... brought in by Christian mission- aries , and from the Danish , a kindred dialect of the Teu- tonic , which was introduced by the large hosts from Den- mark , who endeavoured to effect settlements in England . At this period , literature ...
... brought in by Christian mission- aries , and from the Danish , a kindred dialect of the Teu- tonic , which was introduced by the large hosts from Den- mark , who endeavoured to effect settlements in England . At this period , literature ...
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... brought over his works , to rank with A baggepipe wel coulde he blow and soune , And therewithal he brought us out of toune . It is unfortunate for the fame of Chaucer , and still more so for his countrymen , that his obsolete words ...
... brought over his works , to rank with A baggepipe wel coulde he blow and soune , And therewithal he brought us out of toune . It is unfortunate for the fame of Chaucer , and still more so for his countrymen , that his obsolete words ...
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... brought into exercise by such circumstances . The rise of such men is accidental , and whole ages may pass without producing them . From the death of Chaucer in 1400 , nearly two hundred years elapsed in England , before any poet ...
... brought into exercise by such circumstances . The rise of such men is accidental , and whole ages may pass without producing them . From the death of Chaucer in 1400 , nearly two hundred years elapsed in England , before any poet ...
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... brought to a period when its infancy may be said to cease , and its manhood to commence . In the earlier half of the sixteenth century , it was sensibly affected by a variety of influences , which , for an age before , had ope- rated ...
... brought to a period when its infancy may be said to cease , and its manhood to commence . In the earlier half of the sixteenth century , it was sensibly affected by a variety of influences , which , for an age before , had ope- rated ...
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... brought forth under these circumstances , have been very aptly compared to the productions of a soil for the first time broken up , when all indigenous plants spring up at once with a rank and irrepressible fertility , and display ...
... brought forth under these circumstances , have been very aptly compared to the productions of a soil for the first time broken up , when all indigenous plants spring up at once with a rank and irrepressible fertility , and display ...
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