Shaw's New History of English Literature: Prepared on the Basis of "Shaw's Manual"Sheldon & Company, 1877 - 404 páginas |
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... satire were written . One of these ballads , the Owl and the Nightingale , in giving an amusing account of a competition in song between the two birds , furnishes perhaps the finest specimen of the popular litera- ture of the thirteenth ...
... satire were written . One of these ballads , the Owl and the Nightingale , in giving an amusing account of a competition in song between the two birds , furnishes perhaps the finest specimen of the popular litera- ture of the thirteenth ...
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... satirical passages in his poems indicate that in hos- tility to the monastic orders and in contempt for corrupt men in the church , he heartily sympathized with Wycliffe ; but he probably did not accept the theological opinions of ...
... satirical passages in his poems indicate that in hos- tility to the monastic orders and in contempt for corrupt men in the church , he heartily sympathized with Wycliffe ; but he probably did not accept the theological opinions of ...
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... 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 . Though an imitation of ...
... 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 . Though an imitation of ...
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... satire of Sebastian Brandt . These works , though of little value in themselves , attest the marked progress that ... satiric writings , coarse and vulgar as they are , show so much force and spirit . that they still retain some degree ...
... satire of Sebastian Brandt . These works , though of little value in themselves , attest the marked progress that ... satiric writings , coarse and vulgar as they are , show so much force and spirit . that they still retain some degree ...
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... satire on the citizens of London , together with paraphrases of Ecclesiastes and some of the Psalms , constitute the ... satires and his metrical versions of the Penitential Psalms sup- ply an additional point of resemblance between ...
... satire on the citizens of London , together with paraphrases of Ecclesiastes and some of the Psalms , constitute the ... satires and his metrical versions of the Penitential Psalms sup- ply an additional point of resemblance between ...
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