Shaw's New History of English Literature: Prepared on the Basis of "Shaw's Manual"Sheldon & Company, 1877 - 404 páginas |
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... ENGLISH LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . N their literary inheritance , the readers of the English language are the richest people that the sun shines . on . Their novelists paint the finest portraits of human character , their ...
... ENGLISH LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . N their literary inheritance , the readers of the English language are the richest people that the sun shines . on . Their novelists paint the finest portraits of human character , their ...
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... English language are found only in the names of places , and in the titles of a few familiar objects . In the vocabulary of one hundred and four thousand words given in Webster's Unabridged Dic- tionary , it would be difficult to find ...
... English language are found only in the names of places , and in the titles of a few familiar objects . In the vocabulary of one hundred and four thousand words given in Webster's Unabridged Dic- tionary , it would be difficult to find ...
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... language of the peoples who speak the Modern English were laid between the mid- dle of the fifth and the middle of the sixth century . Pirat- ical adventurers , allured across the North Sea from the bleak shores of their native Jutland ...
... language of the peoples who speak the Modern English were laid between the mid- dle of the fifth and the middle of the sixth century . Pirat- ical adventurers , allured across the North Sea from the bleak shores of their native Jutland ...
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... English nation , then , had Teutonic parentage . The language spoken by the Saxon invaders was akin to the modern Dutch ; and , like the people who spoke it , was vig- orous , practical and imaginative . For a long time the col ...
... English nation , then , had Teutonic parentage . The language spoken by the Saxon invaders was akin to the modern Dutch ; and , like the people who spoke it , was vig- orous , practical and imaginative . For a long time the col ...
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... English soil . But it is in the effects of the Norman Conquest upon the English language that we are interested . The speech which the Norman invaders brought to England was one of two closely related dialects of the Romance languages ...
... English soil . But it is in the effects of the Norman Conquest upon the English language that we are interested . The speech which the Norman invaders brought to England was one of two closely related dialects of the Romance languages ...
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