Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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... Chaucer . By Alfred William Pollard . William Caxton . By Alfred William Pollard . The English Bible . By Alfred ... CHAUCER'S SUCCESSORS , WYCLIF , MALORY AND LE MORTE D'ARTHUR , the MIRACLE - PLAYS , HEYWOOD , UDALL , WYATT AND SURREY ...
... Chaucer . By Alfred William Pollard . William Caxton . By Alfred William Pollard . The English Bible . By Alfred ... CHAUCER'S SUCCESSORS , WYCLIF , MALORY AND LE MORTE D'ARTHUR , the MIRACLE - PLAYS , HEYWOOD , UDALL , WYATT AND SURREY ...
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... Mr A. W. Pollard has charged him- self with Middle English and almost all the writers down to Reformation times - Layamon , the Ormulum , the Chronicles and Romances , Piers Plowman , Chaucer and his successors , Wyclif , Preface vii.
... Mr A. W. Pollard has charged him- self with Middle English and almost all the writers down to Reformation times - Layamon , the Ormulum , the Chronicles and Romances , Piers Plowman , Chaucer and his successors , Wyclif , Preface vii.
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... Chaucer and Spenser , Shakespeare and Bacon , Raleigh and Ben Jonson , are theirs by inheritance as much as they are ours ; the migration across seas did not make Dryden or Pope , Addison or Steele , Johnson or Gibbon , alien to them ...
... Chaucer and Spenser , Shakespeare and Bacon , Raleigh and Ben Jonson , are theirs by inheritance as much as they are ours ; the migration across seas did not make Dryden or Pope , Addison or Steele , Johnson or Gibbon , alien to them ...
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... CHAUCER THE SECULAR DRAMA JOHN GOWER INTERLUDES CHAUCER'S SUCCESSORS JOHN HEYWOOD HOCCLEVE JOHN BALE NICHOLAS UDALL WILLIAM HUNNIS WYATT SURREY ... ... SCOTTISH LITERATURE.
... CHAUCER THE SECULAR DRAMA JOHN GOWER INTERLUDES CHAUCER'S SUCCESSORS JOHN HEYWOOD HOCCLEVE JOHN BALE NICHOLAS UDALL WILLIAM HUNNIS WYATT SURREY ... ... SCOTTISH LITERATURE.
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... CHAUCER SIR THOMAS BROWNE FROM MS . OF THE PRIORESSES TALE ' THOMAS FULLER HOCCLEVE AND HENRY V. FROM THE WYCLIFITE BIBLE FROM CAXTON'S DICTES AND SAYENGIS ' SIR THOMAS MORE ... BISHOP LATIMER SIR THOMAS WYATT THE EARL OF SURREY JOHN ...
... CHAUCER SIR THOMAS BROWNE FROM MS . OF THE PRIORESSES TALE ' THOMAS FULLER HOCCLEVE AND HENRY V. FROM THE WYCLIFITE BIBLE FROM CAXTON'S DICTES AND SAYENGIS ' SIR THOMAS MORE ... BISHOP LATIMER SIR THOMAS WYATT THE EARL OF SURREY JOHN ...
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