A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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... began to write in the fourteenth century , the composite character of the English language had already been fixed . The tongue of the conquered people had first sunk to the level of a despised dialect , spoken still , but not by men of ...
... began to write in the fourteenth century , the composite character of the English language had already been fixed . The tongue of the conquered people had first sunk to the level of a despised dialect , spoken still , but not by men of ...
Pagina 271
... began to cultivate a style of light cynicism and mocking disillusionment . He gave up the Spenserian stanza , which had suited the graver moods of Childe Harold and adopted the ottava rima of Italian poetry , a measure which he handled ...
... began to cultivate a style of light cynicism and mocking disillusionment . He gave up the Spenserian stanza , which had suited the graver moods of Childe Harold and adopted the ottava rima of Italian poetry , a measure which he handled ...
Pagina 336
... began to appear in 1833 as Sketches by Boz , and in 1836 The Pickwick Papers were announced . The serial publication began on a modest scale , but before it was finished the issue of each new number was almost a national event . " Of ...
... began to appear in 1833 as Sketches by Boz , and in 1836 The Pickwick Papers were announced . The serial publication began on a modest scale , but before it was finished the issue of each new number was almost a national event . " Of ...
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