Shaw's New History of English Literature: Prepared on the Basis of Shaw's ManualSheldon, 1883 - 404 páginas |
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... tion caster or chester is a memorial of the Roman occupation , indicating the spot of a castrum or fortified camp ; and the last syllable of Lincoln indicates a Roman colonia . The foundations of the laws and language of the peoples who ...
... tion caster or chester is a memorial of the Roman occupation , indicating the spot of a castrum or fortified camp ; and the last syllable of Lincoln indicates a Roman colonia . The foundations of the laws and language of the peoples who ...
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... tion was with each other , almost never with the foreigner who spoke a foreign language . Their Anglo - Saxon tongue remained , modified only by the abandonment of a few indi- vidual words , and by the adoption of other individual words ...
... tion was with each other , almost never with the foreigner who spoke a foreign language . Their Anglo - Saxon tongue remained , modified only by the abandonment of a few indi- vidual words , and by the adoption of other individual words ...
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... tion , “ moralite and vertuous matiere ; " and so he com- mences a long and very curious sermon on the seven deadly sins , their causes and remedies . His discourse is a most interesting specimen of the theological literature of the day ...
... tion , “ moralite and vertuous matiere ; " and so he com- mences a long and very curious sermon on the seven deadly sins , their causes and remedies . His discourse is a most interesting specimen of the theological literature of the day ...
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... tion of stories , strung together on a plan much inferior to Chaucer's . Instead of a number of characters , we have but two , Lover and Genius . The former , by direction of Venus , confesses his sins to the latter . Genius , the ...
... tion of stories , strung together on a plan much inferior to Chaucer's . Instead of a number of characters , we have but two , Lover and Genius . The former , by direction of Venus , confesses his sins to the latter . Genius , the ...
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... tion may still be read with but little difficulty . The work was exceedingly popular in its time , for it gave accounts of strange peoples and countries about which Englishmen had never heard . In his Prologue , Mandeville recognizes ...
... tion may still be read with but little difficulty . The work was exceedingly popular in its time , for it gave accounts of strange peoples and countries about which Englishmen had never heard . In his Prologue , Mandeville recognizes ...
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