The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 Seiten |
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... Ancient and Modern Nations . By THOMAS DEW , late President of the College of William and Mary . 8vo . 662 pages , • · 19 2.00 Ellsworth's System of Penmanship . Complete in 7 Books . Per dozen , · 150 Copy Slips . For Primary Schools ...
... Ancient and Modern Nations . By THOMAS DEW , late President of the College of William and Mary . 8vo . 662 pages , • · 19 2.00 Ellsworth's System of Penmanship . Complete in 7 Books . Per dozen , · 150 Copy Slips . For Primary Schools ...
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... notion , not altogether inadequate , of its author's manner both in thought and in style . No Extracts are given in the First Part . The writers of those ancient times could not , at least till we reach the very latest PREFACE .
... notion , not altogether inadequate , of its author's manner both in thought and in style . No Extracts are given in the First Part . The writers of those ancient times could not , at least till we reach the very latest PREFACE .
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... Ancient English Drama .... CHAPTER V. Page 59 THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY . A. D. 1307 - A . D. 1399 . INTRODUCTION . 1. Social and Literary Character of the Period , -LITERATURE FROM 1807 TO 1350. 2. Occam's ...
... Ancient English Drama .... CHAPTER V. Page 59 THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY . A. D. 1307 - A . D. 1399 . INTRODUCTION . 1. Social and Literary Character of the Period , -LITERATURE FROM 1807 TO 1350. 2. Occam's ...
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... ancient rudeness of taste . But the mass of the English people , retaining their Teutonic lineage unmixed , clung also , with the twofold obstinacy of Teutons and persecuted men , to their old ancestral tongue . The Anglo - Saxon ...
... ancient rudeness of taste . But the mass of the English people , retaining their Teutonic lineage unmixed , clung also , with the twofold obstinacy of Teutons and persecuted men , to their old ancestral tongue . The Anglo - Saxon ...
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... ancient Britons , has been preserved in the Welsh . Its seats , during the Anglo - Saxon period , were the provinces which were still held by Britons , quite independent or imperfectly subdued . Accordingly , it was universally used in ...
... ancient Britons , has been preserved in the Welsh . Its seats , during the Anglo - Saxon period , were the provinces which were still held by Britons , quite independent or imperfectly subdued . Accordingly , it was universally used in ...
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