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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... composition merely had the words " This is verse " written over it or under it . In respect of everything else appertaining to the soul of the language , our understanding of it is about equally imperfect . The consequence is , that ...
... composition merely had the words " This is verse " written over it or under it . In respect of everything else appertaining to the soul of the language , our understanding of it is about equally imperfect . The consequence is , that ...
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... compositions ; the allusions with which they abounded to public events , and to life in all its colours and grades ... composition at all . The delicacy of a scholarly taste no doubt influenced even the English style of such writers as ...
... compositions ; the allusions with which they abounded to public events , and to life in all its colours and grades ... composition at all . The delicacy of a scholarly taste no doubt influenced even the English style of such writers as ...
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... composition it affords the earliest known instance in the lan- guage . The first modern experiment in this " strange metre , " as it was then called , had , as has already been noticed , been made only a few years before by Lord Surrey ...
... composition it affords the earliest known instance in the lan- guage . The first modern experiment in this " strange metre , " as it was then called , had , as has already been noticed , been made only a few years before by Lord Surrey ...
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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