Readings in English Literature: From Chaucer to Matthew ArnoldA. & C. Black, 1947 - 250 Seiten |
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... English , we remember , was still a young language , with French for one of its parents ; and , though we do not pretend to know precisely how it was spoken , there can be no doubt that many of the French - derived words were still pro ...
... English , we remember , was still a young language , with French for one of its parents ; and , though we do not pretend to know precisely how it was spoken , there can be no doubt that many of the French - derived words were still pro ...
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... English text which in many places it was impossible to improve on . WILLIAM TYNDALE ( died 1536 ) was the first , and until modern times the last , direct translator of the Bible into English ; for Wyclif's translation two centuries ...
... English text which in many places it was impossible to improve on . WILLIAM TYNDALE ( died 1536 ) was the first , and until modern times the last , direct translator of the Bible into English ; for Wyclif's translation two centuries ...
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... English criticism . His gravely civilized verse reflects his classical bias : at its less good it tends to didacticism , but at its best it rises to a noble eloquence . Sohrab and Rustum , whatever it may lack of startling verbal ...
... English criticism . His gravely civilized verse reflects his classical bias : at its less good it tends to didacticism , but at its best it rises to a noble eloquence . Sohrab and Rustum , whatever it may lack of startling verbal ...
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