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 vi
... French Revolution was but five years old , Thackeray's first volume was lately published , and Dickens had issued only a very few of the long series of his stories . Darwin had not yet put on paper the first rough sketch of his ...
... French Revolution was but five years old , Thackeray's first volume was lately published , and Dickens had issued only a very few of the long series of his stories . Darwin had not yet put on paper the first rough sketch of his ...
Page xi
... FRENCH LITERATURE ... LORD BERNERS ... THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND ROBERT FABYAN GEOFF EY OF MONMOUTH LAYAMON RELIGIOUS LITERATURE THE ORMULUM ' EDWARD HALL ... THE LATER MIRACLE - PLAYS STEPHEN HAWES ... JOHN SKELTON ANCREN RIWLE ' ALEXANDER ...
... FRENCH LITERATURE ... LORD BERNERS ... THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND ROBERT FABYAN GEOFF EY OF MONMOUTH LAYAMON RELIGIOUS LITERATURE THE ORMULUM ' EDWARD HALL ... THE LATER MIRACLE - PLAYS STEPHEN HAWES ... JOHN SKELTON ANCREN RIWLE ' ALEXANDER ...
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... French cul- tivation had been making its way into Eng- land . After the Conquest its hold was intensi- | conquered , Britons , English , and Danes , lost fied in every direction , and England was thus brought , definitely and ...
... French cul- tivation had been making its way into Eng- land . After the Conquest its hold was intensi- | conquered , Britons , English , and Danes , lost fied in every direction , and England was thus brought , definitely and ...
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... French romances and miracle - plays ; French allegory and love poetry ; the stories of Troy and Thebes , of Theseus and Alexander , as filtered through Latin and Romance versions ; the masterpieces of Virgil and Ovid ; Eastern tales ...
... French romances and miracle - plays ; French allegory and love poetry ; the stories of Troy and Thebes , of Theseus and Alexander , as filtered through Latin and Romance versions ; the masterpieces of Virgil and Ovid ; Eastern tales ...
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... French idiom . Desiring to resemble the nobles , that they may thus seem of greater consequence , the country people use every endeavour to talk French . In this way , to a surprising degree , the natural and proper speech of Englishmen ...
... French idiom . Desiring to resemble the nobles , that they may thus seem of greater consequence , the country people use every endeavour to talk French . In this way , to a surprising degree , the natural and proper speech of Englishmen ...
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