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... language of Great Britain . Besides the actually distinct languages , the Gaelic of Ireland , the Welsh of Wales , and_the Cornish ( now extinct ) of Cornwall , which are really not Eng- lish at all , there are forms of English so ...
... language of Great Britain . Besides the actually distinct languages , the Gaelic of Ireland , the Welsh of Wales , and_the Cornish ( now extinct ) of Cornwall , which are really not Eng- lish at all , there are forms of English so ...
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... LANGUAGE 1 The language of the Angles and Saxons , sometimes called Old English , was most nearly like that of the Dutch among modern tongues . It belonged in relationship to the same group of languages as German and Norse , and still ...
... LANGUAGE 1 The language of the Angles and Saxons , sometimes called Old English , was most nearly like that of the Dutch among modern tongues . It belonged in relationship to the same group of languages as German and Norse , and still ...
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... LANGUAGE One of the special charms of Elizabethan literature is its language . Grammarians and rhetoricians and dictionary makers had not formalized language as they were to do in later years . Authors were freer to write as they spoke ...
... LANGUAGE One of the special charms of Elizabethan literature is its language . Grammarians and rhetoricians and dictionary makers had not formalized language as they were to do in later years . Authors were freer to write as they spoke ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
VERSE | 15 |
Copyright | |
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