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 Seiten |
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... born about A.D. 673 , and was , like Cædmon , a Northumbrian . From 683 he spent his life at Jarrow , in the same monastery , he says , and while attentive to the rule of mine order , and the service of the Church , my constant pleasure ...
... born about A.D. 673 , and was , like Cædmon , a Northumbrian . From 683 he spent his life at Jarrow , in the same monastery , he says , and while attentive to the rule of mine order , and the service of the Church , my constant pleasure ...
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... born youth who possessed the means should abide at his book till he can well understand English writing . ' " . J. R. Green . · THE LATER OLD ENGLISH PROSE . " The impulse Ælfred gave soon fell away , but it was revived under King ...
... born youth who possessed the means should abide at his book till he can well understand English writing . ' " . J. R. Green . · THE LATER OLD ENGLISH PROSE . " The impulse Ælfred gave soon fell away , but it was revived under King ...
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... - sented . In it also the natural , unliterary , country English is best represented . Its author , WILLIAM LANGLAND , though we are not certain of his Christian name , was born 40 Literature of Period II . , 1066-1400 .
... - sented . In it also the natural , unliterary , country English is best represented . Its author , WILLIAM LANGLAND , though we are not certain of his Christian name , was born 40 Literature of Period II . , 1066-1400 .
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... born about 1332 , at Cleobury Mortimer , in Shropshire . His Vision begins with a description of his sleeping on the Malvern Hills , and the first text of it was probably written in the country in 1362. At the accession of Richard II ...
... born about 1332 , at Cleobury Mortimer , in Shropshire . His Vision begins with a description of his sleeping on the Malvern Hills , and the first text of it was probably written in the country in 1362. At the accession of Richard II ...
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... born of English and Nor- man parents , has sympathies with both peoples , and his history marks how both were becoming one nation . The same welding together of the conquered and the conquerors is seen in the others till we come to ...
... born of English and Nor- man parents , has sympathies with both peoples , and his history marks how both were becoming one nation . The same welding together of the conquered and the conquerors is seen in the others till we come to ...
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