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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... kind of conquest had come into use among them . Corrupted and enfeebled as it was , the advanced civilization which they now encountered seems to have touched them as with a spell , or rather could not but communicate to its assailants ...
... kind of conquest had come into use among them . Corrupted and enfeebled as it was , the advanced civilization which they now encountered seems to have touched them as with a spell , or rather could not but communicate to its assailants ...
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... kind . But those of them that deserve to be so described belong to the humblest kind of poetry - to that kind which has scarcely any distinctively poetical quality or characteristic about it except the rhyme . He has made some attempts ...
... kind . But those of them that deserve to be so described belong to the humblest kind of poetry - to that kind which has scarcely any distinctively poetical quality or characteristic about it except the rhyme . He has made some attempts ...
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... kind of power in his more deliberate efforts . In all his published writings that we have looked into — and , what with essays , and pamphlets of one kind and another , they fill a good many volumes - we scarcely recollect anything that ...
... kind of power in his more deliberate efforts . In all his published writings that we have looked into — and , what with essays , and pamphlets of one kind and another , they fill a good many volumes - we scarcely recollect anything that ...
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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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