History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers]William and Robert Chambers, 1857 - 294 páginas |
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... death of Edward I .; an event which took place in the year 1307 : - Jerusalem , thou hast ilore * The flour of all chivalerie , Nou Kyng Edward liveth na more , Alas ! that he yet shulde deye ! He wolde ha rered up ful heyge + Our ...
... death of Edward I .; an event which took place in the year 1307 : - Jerusalem , thou hast ilore * The flour of all chivalerie , Nou Kyng Edward liveth na more , Alas ! that he yet shulde deye ! He wolde ha rered up ful heyge + Our ...
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... death ! alas mine Emily ! Alas departing of our company ! Alas mine hearté's queen ! alas my wife ! Mine hearte's lady , ender of my life ! What is this world ? -what asken men to have ? Now with his love , now in his coldé grave- Alone ...
... death ! alas mine Emily ! Alas departing of our company ! Alas mine hearté's queen ! alas my wife ! Mine hearte's lady , ender of my life ! What is this world ? -what asken men to have ? Now with his love , now in his coldé grave- Alone ...
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... death of Chaucer in 1400 , nearly two hundred years elapsed in England , before any poet comparable to him arose , and yet those two centuries were more enlightened than the times of Chaucer . He has on this account been likened to a ...
... death of Chaucer in 1400 , nearly two hundred years elapsed in England , before any poet comparable to him arose , and yet those two centuries were more enlightened than the times of Chaucer . He has on this account been likened to a ...
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... death in 1491. As a specimen of his manner of writing , and of the literary language of this age , a passage is extracted below , in modern spelling , from the conclusion of his Book of the Order of Chivalry . * The reigns of Edward IV ...
... death in 1491. As a specimen of his manner of writing , and of the literary language of this age , a passage is extracted below , in modern spelling , from the conclusion of his Book of the Order of Chivalry . * The reigns of Edward IV ...
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... death by Henry VIII . , in 1535 , on account of his re- fusing to acknowledge the supremacy of that monarch over the church . Another great prose - writer of the reign of Henry VIII . was JOHN LELAND , a Protestant clergyman , who ...
... death by Henry VIII . , in 1535 , on account of his re- fusing to acknowledge the supremacy of that monarch over the church . Another great prose - writer of the reign of Henry VIII . was JOHN LELAND , a Protestant clergyman , who ...
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