Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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Page v
... literary London dialect was barely intelligible . And now English , with no essential differences , is the mother - tongue of more than a hundred and - twenty millions of men and women , scattered over all the quarters of the planet ...
... literary London dialect was barely intelligible . And now English , with no essential differences , is the mother - tongue of more than a hundred and - twenty millions of men and women , scattered over all the quarters of the planet ...
Page vi
... literary life of the nation , have rendered necessary a much more thorough - going revision and reconstruction ; a completely new edition is imperatively demanded . verse ; and ' The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ' had made but a few ...
... literary life of the nation , have rendered necessary a much more thorough - going revision and reconstruction ; a completely new edition is imperatively demanded . verse ; and ' The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ' had made but a few ...
Page vii
... literary lost souls , the Ogilbys and the Flecknoes , the Stanyhursts and the Drunken Barnabys , Coryate's Crudities and Boorde's Peregrinations , are treated as having their part in our literary history . Additions and changes of all ...
... literary lost souls , the Ogilbys and the Flecknoes , the Stanyhursts and the Drunken Barnabys , Coryate's Crudities and Boorde's Peregrinations , are treated as having their part in our literary history . Additions and changes of all ...
Page ix
... literary luxury , a patriotic heirloom ; spiritually , Irishmen have learnt in- comparably more from the great body of English writers than from the ancient Irish bards or story - tellers . Happily there is no risk of Irishmen becoming ...
... literary luxury , a patriotic heirloom ; spiritually , Irishmen have learnt in- comparably more from the great body of English writers than from the ancient Irish bards or story - tellers . Happily there is no risk of Irishmen becoming ...
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... literary work . Ability and intelligence in Wessex were more em- ployed in organisation of the Church and in mis- sionary enterprise than in writing . Theodore brought the whole Christianity of England into unity . Wini- fried or ...
... literary work . Ability and intelligence in Wessex were more em- ployed in organisation of the Church and in mis- sionary enterprise than in writing . Theodore brought the whole Christianity of England into unity . Wini- fried or ...
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