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 1 |
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... turned it from Latin into English as it is now done . Sometimes he set down word for word , sometimes meaning for meaning , as he could translate most plainly and clearly in spite of the various and manifold worldly cares which often ...
... turned it from Latin into English as it is now done . Sometimes he set down word for word , sometimes meaning for meaning , as he could translate most plainly and clearly in spite of the various and manifold worldly cares which often ...
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... turned to English in his Latin - named Confessio Amantis . 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 ...
... turned to English in his Latin - named Confessio Amantis . 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 ...
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... turned in to glossyng , gullyng , and whoring wythin the house . The arte of shutynge hath ben in tymes past much estemed in this realme , it is a gyft of God that he hath geuen vs to excell all other nacions wyth all . It hath bene ...
... turned in to glossyng , gullyng , and whoring wythin the house . The arte of shutynge hath ben in tymes past much estemed in this realme , it is a gyft of God that he hath geuen vs to excell all other nacions wyth all . It hath bene ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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