A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 55
... French Literature . - The literary ideal changed at the Norman Conquest of 1066. The con- querors were , it is true , of the race of the pagan Danes whose incursions had for so long afflicted Great Britain , but from the time they had ...
... French Literature . - The literary ideal changed at the Norman Conquest of 1066. The con- querors were , it is true , of the race of the pagan Danes whose incursions had for so long afflicted Great Britain , but from the time they had ...
Page 100
... French alone was taught in the schools and used in translating Latin , so that the sons of nobles were trained in French from their cradles , and men of lowlier birth turned , from snobbish motives , all their energy to learning French ...
... French alone was taught in the schools and used in translating Latin , so that the sons of nobles were trained in French from their cradles , and men of lowlier birth turned , from snobbish motives , all their energy to learning French ...
Page 135
... French poets and to Chaucer . His French extraction is proved by his possession of all of them , and by the fact that he goes beyond them only at those rare moments when , under an Italian influence , he rises above both his own nature ...
... French poets and to Chaucer . His French extraction is proved by his possession of all of them , and by the fact that he goes beyond them only at those rare moments when , under an Italian influence , he rises above both his own nature ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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