Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... French supremacy , and triumphantly reasserted itself in greater flexibility and vigour than before . The area of its currency has grown with the political and commercial sway of the people who speak it . In Alfred's time the Low Dutch ...
... French supremacy , and triumphantly reasserted itself in greater flexibility and vigour than before . The area of its currency has grown with the political and commercial sway of the people who speak it . In Alfred's time the Low Dutch ...
Page vi
... French Revolution was but five should be there , if the man is mainly known years old , Thackeray's first volume was lately by some one noble passage , one sonnet , one published , and Dickens had issued only a very song , one aphorism ...
... French Revolution was but five should be there , if the man is mainly known years old , Thackeray's first volume was lately by some one noble passage , one sonnet , one published , and Dickens had issued only a very song , one aphorism ...
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... French cul- tivation had been making its way into Eng- land . After the Conquest its hold was intensi- fied in every direction , and England was thus brought , definitely and irrevocably , into the full current of the intellectual life ...
... French cul- tivation had been making its way into Eng- land . After the Conquest its hold was intensi- fied in every direction , and England was thus brought , definitely and irrevocably , into the full current of the intellectual life ...
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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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Robert Chambers David Patrick. 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 ...
Robert Chambers David Patrick. 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 ...
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