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Pagina 20
Now of that what has come down to us written in this primitive English is , at least
for us of the present day , wholly or all but wholly destitute . There is much writing
in forms of human speech now extinct , or no longer in oral use , which is still ...
Now of that what has come down to us written in this primitive English is , at least
for us of the present day , wholly or all but wholly destitute . There is much writing
in forms of human speech now extinct , or no longer in oral use , which is still ...
Pagina 125
The presumption , therefore , that his new metre is , as Tyrwhitt asserts , this same
Italian or French metre of ten or eleven syllables ( our present heroic verse )
becomes very strong . Moreover , if Chaucer's verse be not constructed upon the
...
The presumption , therefore , that his new metre is , as Tyrwhitt asserts , this same
Italian or French metre of ten or eleven syllables ( our present heroic verse )
becomes very strong . Moreover , if Chaucer's verse be not constructed upon the
...
Pagina 521
There are only two other names in the poetical literature of the present age that
can be held to stand incontestably in the first rank ; — Tennyson and Robert
Browning . Diverse in much , they have nevertheless also much in common .
They are ...
There are only two other names in the poetical literature of the present age that
can be held to stand incontestably in the first rank ; — Tennyson and Robert
Browning . Diverse in much , they have nevertheless also much in common .
They are ...
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Inhoudsopgave
The Languages of Modern Europe | 1 |
The Celtic Languages and Literatures | 7 |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 23 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the English Language, from the Norm Conquest; with Numerous Specimens |
| Auteur | George Lillie Craik |
| Editie | 8 |
| Uitgever | Griffin, 1880 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 9 juni 2017 |
| Lengte | 536 pagina's |
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