English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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Pagina 49
... French throne , but really because the French kings tried to deprive the English kings of their possessions in France , and because French and English were rivals on land and sea . It lasted till the middle of the next cen- tury . The ...
... French throne , but really because the French kings tried to deprive the English kings of their possessions in France , and because French and English were rivals on land and sea . It lasted till the middle of the next cen- tury . The ...
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... French in the last age had become so customary as to be felt as native . Second , in the west of England occurred a brilliant re- vival of the old alliterative verse . Third , Chaucer ( q.v. ) imitating contemporary French poets ...
... French in the last age had become so customary as to be felt as native . Second , in the west of England occurred a brilliant re- vival of the old alliterative verse . Third , Chaucer ( q.v. ) imitating contemporary French poets ...
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... French Revolution French influence on language , 34 , 157 French Revolution , 212 , 268 , 269 , 272 , 273 ; influence , 274 ; Burke and , 238 , 239 ; Burns and , 244 ; Wordsworth and , 289 , 290 , 291 ; Coleridge and , 295 ; Byron and ...
... French Revolution French influence on language , 34 , 157 French Revolution , 212 , 268 , 269 , 272 , 273 ; influence , 274 ; Burke and , 238 , 239 ; Burns and , 244 ; Wordsworth and , 289 , 290 , 291 ; Coleridge and , 295 ; Byron and ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
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