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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... Taste of the Public - Lyrical Poems of Gray and Collins .... Page 330 CHAPTER XII . THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY , A. D. 1760 - A . D. 1800 . SECTION FOURTH : THE LITERATURE OF THE THIRD GENERATION . PROSE . 1. The Historians - Their Literary ...
... Taste of the Public - Lyrical Poems of Gray and Collins .... Page 330 CHAPTER XII . THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY , A. D. 1760 - A . D. 1800 . SECTION FOURTH : THE LITERATURE OF THE THIRD GENERATION . PROSE . 1. The Historians - Their Literary ...
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... 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 language , passing through ...
... 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 language , passing through ...
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... taste , surprising for his time : and his inves- tigations into the antiquities of his country gave birth to his Ecclesiastical History of England , which is to this day a leading authority , not for the annals of the church only , but ...
... taste , surprising for his time : and his inves- tigations into the antiquities of his country gave birth to his Ecclesiastical History of England , which is to this day a leading authority , not for the annals of the church only , but ...
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... taste that soon prevailed . But the most amusing of all our early classical poems is a satire called " The Mirror of Fools , " written by Nigel Wircker , a monk of Canter- bury . The hero , Brunellus , is literally an ass , who ...
... taste that soon prevailed . But the most amusing of all our early classical poems is a satire called " The Mirror of Fools , " written by Nigel Wircker , a monk of Canter- bury . The hero , Brunellus , is literally an ass , who ...
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... taste of rude and ig- norant hearers . Several books of the sort were avowedly de- signed for being useful in this way : and one of these at least was written in England , bearing a title which may be translated , " The Text - book of ...
... taste of rude and ig- norant hearers . Several books of the sort were avowedly de- signed for being useful in this way : and one of these at least was written in England , bearing a title which may be translated , " The Text - book of ...
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