Shaw's New History of English Literature: Prepared on the Basis of "Shaw's Manual"Sheldon & Company, 1877 - 404 páginas |
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... style , and so discriminating in its 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 ...
... style , and so discriminating in its 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 ...
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... style and a sober eloquence . Putting aside the Hebrew annals , there is not anywhere known a series of early vernacular histories comparable to the Saxon Chronicles . " Their close marks the close of the old language as well as of the ...
... style and a sober eloquence . Putting aside the Hebrew annals , there is not anywhere known a series of early vernacular histories comparable to the Saxon Chronicles . " Their close marks the close of the old language as well as of the ...
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... style , he rises far above all Gothic historians of that age . Asser , a devout bishop , was the friend and counsellor D. 910. ] of Alfred . He is supposed to have been the author of an extant biography of the king . This work is of ...
... style , he rises far above all Gothic historians of that age . Asser , a devout bishop , was the friend and counsellor D. 910. ] of Alfred . He is supposed to have been the author of an extant biography of the king . This work is of ...
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... style of the work bears witness to Norman influence , but not to so great an extent as might have been expect- ed from the translator of a French original . The fact that it was written for the common people of a rural district was ...
... style of the work bears witness to Norman influence , but not to so great an extent as might have been expect- ed from the translator of a French original . The fact that it was written for the common people of a rural district was ...
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... style and metre of the Trouvère narrative poems - the only instance of this versification in the Canterbury Tales . He goes on gallantly " in the style his books of chivalry had taught him , " like Don Quixote , " imitating , as near as ...
... style and metre of the Trouvère narrative poems - the only instance of this versification in the Canterbury Tales . He goes on gallantly " in the style his books of chivalry had taught him , " like Don Quixote , " imitating , as near as ...
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