A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest. With Numerous SpecimensGriffin, 1867 - 536 pagina's |
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Pagina 54
... Romance spoken in the south of Gaul appears to have been originally nearly , if not altogether , identical with that spoken in the north - east of Spain ; and it always preserved a close resemblance and affinity to that and the other ...
... Romance spoken in the south of Gaul appears to have been originally nearly , if not altogether , identical with that spoken in the north - east of Spain ; and it always preserved a close resemblance and affinity to that and the other ...
Pagina 82
... romances , meaning originally any com- positions in the Romance or French language , then any narrative compositions whatever , were written in the thirteenth , a few may have appeared in prose ; but before the close of the fourteenth ...
... romances , meaning originally any com- positions in the Romance or French language , then any narrative compositions whatever , were written in the thirteenth , a few may have appeared in prose ; but before the close of the fourteenth ...
Pagina 103
... romance prior to the age of Chaucer which is not a translation or imitation of some earlier French romance . " * Certainly , if this judgment has not been absolutely demonstrated , it has not been refuted , by the more extended ...
... romance prior to the age of Chaucer which is not a translation or imitation of some earlier French romance . " * Certainly , if this judgment has not been absolutely demonstrated , it has not been refuted , by the more extended ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Languages of Modern Europe | 1 |
The Celtic Languages and Literatures | 7 |
Original English commonly called Saxon or AngloSaxon | 15 |
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