History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers]William and Robert Chambers, 1857 - 294 páginas |
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... readers . The earliest existing specimen of composition in the Saxon tongue is a fragment by Cadmon , a monk of Whitby , who wrote religious poetry in a very sublime strain , in the eighth century , and who , for want of learn- ing ...
... readers . The earliest existing specimen of composition in the Saxon tongue is a fragment by Cadmon , a monk of Whitby , who wrote religious poetry in a very sublime strain , in the eighth century , and who , for want of learn- ing ...
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... country , was still employed in learned compositions in Latin . * * In order to convey at least , to the eye of the reader , a notion of the language employed by the people of England The minstrel - poems , though in many respects absurd.
... country , was still employed in learned compositions in Latin . * * In order to convey at least , to the eye of the reader , a notion of the language employed by the people of England The minstrel - poems , though in many respects absurd.
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... reader . The Knight , the Yeo- man , the Prioress , the Monk , the Merchant , the Lawyer , the Miller - all are exact and recognisable portraits . * * As a specimen of the verse of Chaucer , in its original ap . pearance , his ...
... reader . The Knight , the Yeo- man , the Prioress , the Monk , the Merchant , the Lawyer , the Miller - all are exact and recognisable portraits . * * As a specimen of the verse of Chaucer , in its original ap . pearance , his ...
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... readers , is justly regarded as one of the greatest compositions in English poetry . Spenser formed his manner , in some degree , upon the model of the Italian poets ; and yet he is not only unlike them in many respects , but he is like ...
... readers , is justly regarded as one of the greatest compositions in English poetry . Spenser formed his manner , in some degree , upon the model of the Italian poets ; and yet he is not only unlike them in many respects , but he is like ...
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... reader of the genteel comedy , as it was called , of the succeeding cen- tury . On this account , we shall select from one of his plays the only specimen of the comic drama of the pe- riod , for which room can be afforded in the present ...
... reader of the genteel comedy , as it was called , of the succeeding cen- tury . On this account , we shall select from one of his plays the only specimen of the comic drama of the pe- riod , for which room can be afforded in the present ...
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