A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville William CowperBancroft, 1854 - 776 pagina's |
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... British Poets and Prose writers , arranged in a chronological order , to show the progress of the English language , with short accounts of the authors and of their works , and such notes as would direct the reader to the best editions ...
... British Poets and Prose writers , arranged in a chronological order , to show the progress of the English language , with short accounts of the authors and of their works , and such notes as would direct the reader to the best editions ...
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... English language has since made , than if it were modernized . Before the art of printing was discovered , there was no settled method of spelling ; the same word therefore , will be found spelled different ways . 8 As muck . 4 Have . 6 ...
... English language has since made , than if it were modernized . Before the art of printing was discovered , there was no settled method of spelling ; the same word therefore , will be found spelled different ways . 8 As muck . 4 Have . 6 ...
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... English , for profit of English- men . For , if worldly clerks look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find , that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , either common language of this ...
... English , for profit of English- men . For , if worldly clerks look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find , that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , either common language of this ...
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... English literature - to him who has been distinctively known as " The Father of English poetry " —— Geoffrey Chaucer . Warton , with great beauty and justice , has compared the appearance of Chaucer in our language to " a premature day ...
... English literature - to him who has been distinctively known as " The Father of English poetry " —— Geoffrey Chaucer . Warton , with great beauty and justice , has compared the appearance of Chaucer in our language to " a premature day ...
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... language , he labored to reform its irregularities , and to establish an English style . In these respects he resembled Chaucer , but he has little of his spirit , imagination , or elegance . His language is tolerably perspicuous , and ...
... language , he labored to reform its irregularities , and to establish an English style . In these respects he resembled Chaucer , but he has little of his spirit , imagination , or elegance . His language is tolerably perspicuous , and ...
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