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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Page v
... English power but the English tongue , and put Danish in the place of English throughout these islands . The same Elfred who made the first Cyclopædia of earlier English song and story saved the English land and folk and speech from ...
... English power but the English tongue , and put Danish in the place of English throughout these islands . The same Elfred who made the first Cyclopædia of earlier English song and story saved the English land and folk and speech from ...
Page vii
... English literature , formerly discussed in three pages , now occupies more than ten times the space ; Middle English has no longer only some twenty pages allotted to it , but ninety . In the first volume alone over fifty authors not ...
... English literature , formerly discussed in three pages , now occupies more than ten times the space ; Middle English has no longer only some twenty pages allotted to it , but ninety . In the first volume alone over fifty authors not ...
Page viii
... English than the southron speech - for the tongue of Bacon and Shakespeare , of Hooker and Raleigh , and accepted the English Bible at once as their literary standard and their rule of life . Scotsmen have since contributed their quota ...
... English than the southron speech - for the tongue of Bacon and Shakespeare , of Hooker and Raleigh , and accepted the English Bible at once as their literary standard and their rule of life . Scotsmen have since contributed their quota ...
Page ix
... English temper that led them into the wilderness ; and it was the same spirit as had again and again moved their forefathers in the past of English history that led them finally to repudiate the English king and government . But they ...
... English temper that led them into the wilderness ; and it was the same spirit as had again and again moved their forefathers in the past of English history that led them finally to repudiate the English king and government . But they ...
Page xi
... ENGLISH INVASION ' BEOWULF ' SIR THOMAS CLANVOWE SIR RICHARD ROS ... ... ... HALF - HEATHEN POETRY CÆDMON AND THE CHRISTIAN POETRY ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS THOMAS USK SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE CYNEWULF JOHN OF TREVISA LATIN WRITERS BEFORE LFRED ...
... ENGLISH INVASION ' BEOWULF ' SIR THOMAS CLANVOWE SIR RICHARD ROS ... ... ... HALF - HEATHEN POETRY CÆDMON AND THE CHRISTIAN POETRY ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS THOMAS USK SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE CYNEWULF JOHN OF TREVISA LATIN WRITERS BEFORE LFRED ...
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