Shaw's New History of English Literature: Prepared on the Basis of Shaw's ManualSheldon, 1883 - 404 páginas |
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... 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 , Swift , Addison ...
... 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 , Swift , Addison ...
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Prepared on the Basis of Shaw's Manual Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus. ENGLISH LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . IN their literary inheritance , the readers of the English language are the richest people that the sun shines on ...
Prepared on the Basis of Shaw's Manual Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus. ENGLISH LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . IN their literary inheritance , the readers of the English language are the richest people that the sun shines on ...
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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 vol ...
... 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 vol ...
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