From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty AuthorsGrosset & Dunlap, 1898 - 317 pages |
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... England , in the eleventh century , made a break in the natural growth of the English language and literature . The ... England . Norman French was the birth- tongue of the upper classes and English of the lower . When the latter got the ...
... England , in the eleventh century , made a break in the natural growth of the English language and literature . The ... England . Norman French was the birth- tongue of the upper classes and English of the lower . When the latter got the ...
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... England in 1224 , became intermediaries between the high and the low . They went about French words . preaching to the poor , and in their sermons they inter- mingled French with English . In their hands , too , was almost all the ...
... England in 1224 , became intermediaries between the high and the low . They went about French words . preaching to the poor , and in their sermons they inter- mingled French with English . In their hands , too , was almost all the ...
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... England with New intellec- tual impulse the Continent . Lanfranc and Anselm , the first two communicated by the Norman archbishops of Canterbury , were learned and splendid prelates of a type quite unknown to the Anglo - Saxons . They ...
... England with New intellec- tual impulse the Continent . Lanfranc and Anselm , the first two communicated by the Norman archbishops of Canterbury , were learned and splendid prelates of a type quite unknown to the Anglo - Saxons . They ...
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... England began to be once more English and truly national in the hands of Chaucer and his contempo- raries , but it was the literature of a nation cut off from its own past by three centuries of foreign rule . Continuity of the national ...
... England began to be once more English and truly national in the hands of Chaucer and his contempo- raries , but it was the literature of a nation cut off from its own past by three centuries of foreign rule . Continuity of the national ...
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... England , ” written in prose in 1463-64 , hardly anything of it is left . In history as in literature the English had forgotten their past and had turned to foreign sources . It is noteworthy that Shakspere , who borrowed his subjects ...
... England , ” written in prose in 1463-64 , hardly anything of it is left . In history as in literature the English had forgotten their past and had turned to foreign sources . It is noteworthy that Shakspere , who borrowed his subjects ...
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