History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers]William and Robert Chambers, 1857 - 294 páginas |
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Robert Chambers. ANGLO - SAXON AND NORMAN LANGUAGES . 3 and some progress seems soon after to have been made in the art of composing poetry in the common language . Yet these branches of literature were generally held in contempt in ...
Robert Chambers. ANGLO - SAXON AND NORMAN LANGUAGES . 3 and some progress seems soon after to have been made in the art of composing poetry in the common language . Yet these branches of literature were generally held in contempt in ...
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... seems to have been well acquainted with the world , such as it was in his own time . His chief work is that called the Canterbury Tales , which con- sists of a series of sportive and pathetic narratives , re- lated by a miscellaneous ...
... seems to have been well acquainted with the world , such as it was in his own time . His chief work is that called the Canterbury Tales , which con- sists of a series of sportive and pathetic narratives , re- lated by a miscellaneous ...
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... seems to have been that entitled the Adventures of Sir William Wallace , composed about the year 1460 , by a wandering minstrel named BLIND HARRY , and which presented the general outlines of the history of that hero , * A ! fredome is ...
... seems to have been that entitled the Adventures of Sir William Wallace , composed about the year 1460 , by a wandering minstrel named BLIND HARRY , and which presented the general outlines of the history of that hero , * A ! fredome is ...
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... seem To little minds who do it so esteem . He looks upon the mightiest monarch's wars , But only as on stately robberies ; Where evermore the fortune that prevails Must be the right : the ill - succeeding mars The fairest and the best ...
... seem To little minds who do it so esteem . He looks upon the mightiest monarch's wars , But only as on stately robberies ; Where evermore the fortune that prevails Must be the right : the ill - succeeding mars The fairest and the best ...
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... seems to have followed the manner of Spenser in his unceasing personifications of natural objects , such as hills , rivers , and woods . The prevailing taste of Drayton is a mixture of the historical and the poetical ; and besides the ...
... seems to have followed the manner of Spenser in his unceasing personifications of natural objects , such as hills , rivers , and woods . The prevailing taste of Drayton is a mixture of the historical and the poetical ; and besides the ...
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