A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and sons, 1880 |
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... illustrative specimens , intended mainly to form the basis of lessons on variety of style , are appended to all the leading lives . Since names that cannot be passed over grow very thick towards the end , the closing chapters of the ...
... illustrative specimens , intended mainly to form the basis of lessons on variety of style , are appended to all the leading lives . Since names that cannot be passed over grow very thick towards the end , the closing chapters of the ...
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... Illustrative extract . THE earliest writer of English prose , whose work survives , was Sir John de Mandeville . He was born at St. Albans in Hertfordshire about the year 1300. Educated for the medical profession , he had scarcely ...
... Illustrative extract . THE earliest writer of English prose , whose work survives , was Sir John de Mandeville . He was born at St. Albans in Hertfordshire about the year 1300. Educated for the medical profession , he had scarcely ...
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... Illustrative extract . ON a rocky point , overhanging the Tees in Yorkshire , a manor- house stood , in which once lived the Wycliffes of Wycliffe . * There , probably in 1324 , a boy was born , who has gilded the family name with ...
... Illustrative extract . ON a rocky point , overhanging the Tees in Yorkshire , a manor- house stood , in which once lived the Wycliffes of Wycliffe . * There , probably in 1324 , a boy was born , who has gilded the family name with ...
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... Illustrative extracts . CHAUCER is a star of the first magnitude . First great writer of English verse , he proudly wears the honoured title , - " Father of English Poetry ; " nor can the most brilliant of his successors feel ashamed of ...
... Illustrative extracts . CHAUCER is a star of the first magnitude . First great writer of English verse , he proudly wears the honoured title , - " Father of English Poetry ; " nor can the most brilliant of his successors feel ashamed of ...
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... Illustrative extract . THOUGH ranking far below the great Father of English Poetry , " the moral Gower , " as his friend Chaucer calls him in the " Troilus and Creseide , " yet holds an honoured place among our earlier bards . We know ...
... Illustrative extract . THOUGH ranking far below the great Father of English Poetry , " the moral Gower , " as his friend Chaucer calls him in the " Troilus and Creseide , " yet holds an honoured place among our earlier bards . We know ...
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