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 46
... common language of literary composition , in all works intended for the perusal of the educated classes , was still the Latin , the language of religion throughout the western world , as it had been from the first ages of the Church ...
... common language of literary composition , in all works intended for the perusal of the educated classes , was still the Latin , the language of religion throughout the western world , as it had been from the first ages of the Church ...
Pagina 127
... common to all languages in a state of growth , there can be no doubt that , in the progress of the English tongue , from its first subjection to literary cultivation in the middle of the thirteenth century to its final settlement in the ...
... common to all languages in a state of growth , there can be no doubt that , in the progress of the English tongue , from its first subjection to literary cultivation in the middle of the thirteenth century to its final settlement in the ...
Pagina 136
... common fountain - head , had not yet , with all its real superiority , either supplanted the old lays and romances of the trouvères and troubadours , or even taken its place by their side . The earliest English , as well as the earliest ...
... common fountain - head , had not yet , with all its real superiority , either supplanted the old lays and romances of the trouvères and troubadours , or even taken its place by their side . The earliest English , as well as the earliest ...
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The Languages of Modern Europe | 1 |
The Celtic Languages and Literatures | 7 |
Original English commonly called Saxon or AngloSaxon | 15 |
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