Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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Page 22
... 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 in the old direction . first English imaginative poem after the Con- quest starts with the attempt to link the for- tunes of our island with those of Troy , and this grafting upon English history of the classical traditions which ...
... turned in the old direction . first English imaginative poem after the Con- quest starts with the attempt to link the for- tunes of our island with those of Troy , and this grafting upon English history of the classical traditions which ...
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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 into English The Gospel's holy lore , 5 10 15 20 25 5 10 After that little wit that me 15 My Lord and God has lent . Thou thoughtest how that it might well To mickle profit turn , If English folk , for love of Christ , It readily ...
... turned into English The Gospel's holy lore , 5 10 15 20 25 5 10 After that little wit that me 15 My Lord and God has lent . Thou thoughtest how that it might well To mickle profit turn , If English folk , for love of Christ , It readily ...
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... on the Astrolabe . Elizabeth Chaucer , for whose noviciate at the Abbey of Barking John of Gaunt paid a large sum in 1381 , was probably the poet's daughter . Petrarch had recently turned into Latin from the Italian of 60 Chaucer.
... on the Astrolabe . Elizabeth Chaucer , for whose noviciate at the Abbey of Barking John of Gaunt paid a large sum in 1381 , was probably the poet's daughter . Petrarch had recently turned into Latin from the Italian of 60 Chaucer.
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