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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... knowledge of it is yet more valuable to those who desire to gain , as every one among us must if he is justly to be called a well - educated man , an exact mastery of the Science of Eng- lish Grammar . The description here given of the ...
... knowledge of it is yet more valuable to those who desire to gain , as every one among us must if he is justly to be called a well - educated man , an exact mastery of the Science of Eng- lish Grammar . The description here given of the ...
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... knowledge and tastes thus introduced among the British Celts were not uncommunicated to those vigorous invaders , whose occupation of the island speedily followed the retirement of the imperial armies . 3. The ages which succeeded the ...
... knowledge and tastes thus introduced among the British Celts were not uncommunicated to those vigorous invaders , whose occupation of the island speedily followed the retirement of the imperial armies . 3. The ages which succeeded the ...
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... knowledge ; and the opposition of opinions in regard to them produced most of those civil broils , in which our kings , our ciergy , our aristocracy , and our people , played parts , and engaged in combinations , so shifting and so ...
... knowledge ; and the opposition of opinions in regard to them produced most of those civil broils , in which our kings , our ciergy , our aristocracy , and our people , played parts , and engaged in combinations , so shifting and so ...
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... knowledge , and been long accustomed to exercise mature and patient thought . We may , however , understand the facts in part ; and our first step in the study of them should be to learn a few of the circum- stances , in which we and ...
... knowledge , and been long accustomed to exercise mature and patient thought . We may , however , understand the facts in part ; and our first step in the study of them should be to learn a few of the circum- stances , in which we and ...
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... knowledge from oral communication . Information thus impeded could not be generally accessible ; the few who attained it learned with difficulty , and , with some signal exceptions , did not learn tho- roughly . In several departments ...
... knowledge from oral communication . Information thus impeded could not be generally accessible ; the few who attained it learned with difficulty , and , with some signal exceptions , did not learn tho- roughly . In several departments ...
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Æneid ALBERT SCHWEGLER allegory ancient Anglo-Saxon beautiful belong Ben Jonson Bishop blank verse called celebrated Celts century character Chaucer chiefly chivalrous Chronicle church classical close Comedy composition critical declension dialect diction didactic drama earliest early ecclesiastical Edinburgh Review eloquence eminent England English language Essays fancy feeling French genius Geoffrey of Monmouth Henry honour illustrations imagination kind king Knight's Tale knowledge language Latin Layamon learned less letters likewise literary literature living lyrical merit metrical middle ages Milton mind modern moral narrative nation native nature never Norman Conquest Old English opinions original passages perhaps period philosophy poems poet poetical poetry possessed prose reign religious romances satire Saxon Scotland Scottish sentiment Shakspeare specimens Spenser spirit story style taste theological things thou thought tion tone tongue translation treatise truth verse vigorous words writers written