A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 sider |
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Side 12
... French Revolution , 1745-1789 . PERIOD VIII . From the French Revolution onwards , 1789- ENGLISH LITERATURE . LESSON 1 . INTRODUCTORY . REQUISITES FOR PERIOD I PAGE Periods of English Literature.
... French Revolution , 1745-1789 . PERIOD VIII . From the French Revolution onwards , 1789- ENGLISH LITERATURE . LESSON 1 . INTRODUCTORY . REQUISITES FOR PERIOD I PAGE Periods of English Literature.
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... French system of rhymes and of metres , which we find full - grown in Chaucer's works . But unrhymed and alliterative verse lasted in poetry to the reign of John , and alliteration was blended . with rhyme up to the sixteenth century ...
... French system of rhymes and of metres , which we find full - grown in Chaucer's works . But unrhymed and alliterative verse lasted in poetry to the reign of John , and alliteration was blended . with rhyme up to the sixteenth century ...
Side 37
... French words and opened the door for the Latin ( the two now forming three tenths of our vocabulary ) , added ( 6 ) ... French in manner and lan- guage , and their literature French , yet the old blood prevailed in the end . The Norman ...
... French words and opened the door for the Latin ( the two now forming three tenths of our vocabulary ) , added ( 6 ) ... French in manner and lan- guage , and their literature French , yet the old blood prevailed in the end . The Norman ...
Side 38
... French elements he had brought with him . It was a pro- cess slower in literature than it was in the political history , but it began from the political struggle . Up to the time of Henry II . the Norman troubled himself but little ...
... French elements he had brought with him . It was a pro- cess slower in literature than it was in the political history , but it began from the political struggle . Up to the time of Henry II . the Norman troubled himself but little ...
Side 39
... French . Chaucer becomes less French and even less Italian , till at last we find him entirely national in the Canterbury Tales , the best example of English story - telling we possess . The struggle , then , of England , against the ...
... French . Chaucer becomes less French and even less Italian , till at last we find him entirely national in the Canterbury Tales , the best example of English story - telling we possess . The struggle , then , of England , against the ...
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ballads beauty began Ben Jonson Beowulf Cædmon called Canterbury Tales century characters Chaucer Church criticism death delight drama Edward III Elizabethan England English literature English poetry English prose Essays eyes Faerie Queen feeling French genius GEORGE GASCOIGNE Greek hath heart Henry Henry VIII human humor imitated influence John king language Latin Layamon learning LESSON light lish literary lived look Lord Milton mind moral nature never noble Ormulum Paradise Lost passion plays pleasure poem poetic poets political Pope Puritan Quar Queen reign religion religious Roman satire scenery Scotland Scottish Sejanus Shakespeare songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit story style sweet thee things thou thought tion tongue took translation truth unto verse Ward's Anthology whole William William Minto words writing written wrote