Chamber's Cyclopędia 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 1 |
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Gower also wrote French balades which have real literary merit , but he is the last English poet who seriously used a foreign language as the medium of poetry ; and though later writers , such as Sir Thomas More and Bacon , used Latin ...
Gower also wrote French balades which have real literary merit , but he is the last English poet who seriously used a foreign language as the medium of poetry ; and though later writers , such as Sir Thomas More and Bacon , used Latin ...
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No professed literary man was needed . like . In all these classes are “ plain traces of Once composed and chanted , the ballad became decline from a more ancient and nobler model . ' the property of the people , and was altered to ...
No professed literary man was needed . like . In all these classes are “ plain traces of Once composed and chanted , the ballad became decline from a more ancient and nobler model . ' the property of the people , and was altered to ...
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But such and manners by Red Indians , just as some ballad- localisations ( which are common ) are not usually makers adapted literary romances to popular taste . original parts of the story . Nor do they fix a date .
But such and manners by Red Indians , just as some ballad- localisations ( which are common ) are not usually makers adapted literary romances to popular taste . original parts of the story . Nor do they fix a date .
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| Title | Chamber's Cyclopędia 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 1 Chamber's Cyclopędia 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, John Liddell Geddie |
| Author | Robert Chambers |
| Editor | David Patrick |
| Published | 1922 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2010 |
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