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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... manner of looking dreadful things in the face , and with its English pathos , the religi- ous poetry of this time always went with faith beyond the grave . Thus we are told that King Eadgar , in the ode on his death in the Anglo - Saxon ...
... manner of looking dreadful things in the face , and with its English pathos , the religi- ous poetry of this time always went with faith beyond the grave . Thus we are told that King Eadgar , in the ode on his death in the Anglo - Saxon ...
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... manner and lan- guage , and their literature French , yet the old blood prevailed in the end . The Norman felt his kindred with the English tongue and spirit , became an Englishman , and left the French tongue to speak and write in ...
... manner and lan- guage , and their literature French , yet the old blood prevailed in the end . The Norman felt his kindred with the English tongue and spirit , became an Englishman , and left the French tongue to speak and write in ...
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... manner is French . Chaucer becomes less French and even less Italian , till at last we find him entirely national in the Canterbury Tales , the best example of English story - telling we possess . The struggle , then , of England ...
... manner is French . Chaucer becomes less French and even less Italian , till at last we find him entirely national in the Canterbury Tales , the best example of English story - telling we possess . The struggle , then , of England ...
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... manner of telling stories is more and more marked . In the Lay of Havelok , the spirit and descriptions of the poem still resemble old English work ; in the Romance of Alexander , on the other hand , the natural landscape , the ...
... manner of telling stories is more and more marked . In the Lay of Havelok , the spirit and descriptions of the poem still resemble old English work ; in the Romance of Alexander , on the other hand , the natural landscape , the ...
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... manner . The very ploughboy could understand it . It became the book of those who desired social and Church reform . It was as eagerly read by the free laborers and fugitive serfs who collected round John Ball and Wat Tyler . CAUSES OF ...
... manner . The very ploughboy could understand it . It became the book of those who desired social and Church reform . It was as eagerly read by the free laborers and fugitive serfs who collected round John Ball and Wat Tyler . CAUSES OF ...
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