Shaw's New History of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1878 - 404 páginas |
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Página xi
... thought and our language , to have them read the best criticisms upon these authors , and the best passages from their works . With this plan in view , the essays on Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Bacon , Milton , Dryden , Pope ...
... thought and our language , to have them read the best criticisms upon these authors , and the best passages from their works . With this plan in view , the essays on Chaucer , Spenser , Shakespeare , Bacon , Milton , Dryden , Pope ...
Página xii
... thought . Throughout the volume references are made to Professor B. N. Martin's Choice Specimens of English and American Literature . The black - faced figures ( 1 ) refer to the sections in his books . VASSAR COLLEGE , August 29 , 1874 ...
... thought . Throughout the volume references are made to Professor B. N. Martin's Choice Specimens of English and American Literature . The black - faced figures ( 1 ) refer to the sections in his books . VASSAR COLLEGE , August 29 , 1874 ...
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... thought and language . They displaced the English Glee- man , crowding him into the society of the humblest people . The character of a conquest determines its effect upon the language of the conquered . The Norman Conquest was not such ...
... thought and language . They displaced the English Glee- man , crowding him into the society of the humblest people . The character of a conquest determines its effect upon the language of the conquered . The Norman Conquest was not such ...
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... thoughts and feelings of the English people have found expression in the same lan- guage which we now speak . The rude dialects that were brought to Britain by our forefathers , though differing in many particulars , were like the ...
... thoughts and feelings of the English people have found expression in the same lan- guage which we now speak . The rude dialects that were brought to Britain by our forefathers , though differing in many particulars , were like the ...
Página 14
... its bone - house ( " ban - hus " ) . man . A description of this poem is comparatively uninstructive and valueless without an illustration of its quaint thought and its terse expression . We will look at a short extract 14 BEOWULF .
... its bone - house ( " ban - hus " ) . man . A description of this poem is comparatively uninstructive and valueless without an illustration of its quaint thought and its terse expression . We will look at a short extract 14 BEOWULF .
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