Shaw's New History of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1878 - 404 páginas |
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... tone ; ' there is old Alderman Ox continues to hold his Saxon epithet while he is under the charge of serfs and bondsmen such as thou , but becomes Beef , a fiery French gallant , when he arrives before the worshipful jaws that are ...
... tone ; ' there is old Alderman Ox continues to hold his Saxon epithet while he is under the charge of serfs and bondsmen such as thou , but becomes Beef , a fiery French gallant , when he arrives before the worshipful jaws that are ...
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... tone ; the rhyming chronicles and legen- dary romances were either translated into , or originally com- posed in , the vernacular language . B. 1328. ] D. 1400. ] The date of Chaucer's birth is uncertain . There are reasons for fixing ...
... tone ; the rhyming chronicles and legen- dary romances were either translated into , or originally com- posed in , the vernacular language . B. 1328. ] D. 1400. ] The date of Chaucer's birth is uncertain . There are reasons for fixing ...
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... tone is one of spirited satire , aimed against abuses and vices in general , but specially against the corruptions of the Church . The Creed of Piers Ploughman is supposed to have been written twenty - three years later than the Vision ...
... tone is one of spirited satire , aimed against abuses and vices in general , but specially against the corruptions of the Church . The Creed of Piers Ploughman is supposed to have been written twenty - three years later than the Vision ...
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... tone . Their collected works were first published ten years after Surrey's death . The stirring old English Ballads , though composed by unknown minstrels , must not be overlooked . Their language is simple , their verse rude , their ...
... tone . Their collected works were first published ten years after Surrey's death . The stirring old English Ballads , though composed by unknown minstrels , must not be overlooked . Their language is simple , their verse rude , their ...
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... tones and incidents , be ranged under either head . Indeed , in all , the tragic and comic elements are more or less intermixed , and it is this blending of the two in the same piece which constitutes the distinguishing trait of the ...
... tones and incidents , be ranged under either head . Indeed , in all , the tragic and comic elements are more or less intermixed , and it is this blending of the two in the same piece which constitutes the distinguishing trait of the ...
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