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 20
... Greek , ( 4 ) the Slavonic , of which the Russian is chief , ( 5 ) the Italic , of which the Latin is the great representative , and ( 6 ) the Teutonic , subdivisible into the Gothic , the Scandinavian , the High Germanic , and the Low ...
... Greek , ( 4 ) the Slavonic , of which the Russian is chief , ( 5 ) the Italic , of which the Latin is the great representative , and ( 6 ) the Teutonic , subdivisible into the Gothic , the Scandinavian , the High Germanic , and the Low ...
Side 69
... Greek manuscripts there fled principally to Italy . Disclosure of the stores of Greek literature wrought the Revival of Learning . Caxton set up the first printing - press in England , 1476. Only the gentry ate wheaten bread ; poorer ...
... Greek manuscripts there fled principally to Italy . Disclosure of the stores of Greek literature wrought the Revival of Learning . Caxton set up the first printing - press in England , 1476. Only the gentry ate wheaten bread ; poorer ...
Side 71
... Greek works . There were fine scholars in England , like John Lord Tiptoft , Earl of Worcester , who had won fame in the schools of Italy . Be- fore 1474 , when Caxton finished the first book said to have been printed in England , The ...
... Greek works . There were fine scholars in England , like John Lord Tiptoft , Earl of Worcester , who had won fame in the schools of Italy . Be- fore 1474 , when Caxton finished the first book said to have been printed in England , The ...
Side 72
... Greek in Oxford , Cambridge , and London . John Colet , Dean of St. Paul's , with John Lily , the grammarian , set on foot a school where the classics were taught in a new and practical way . Erasmus , who had all the enthusiasm which ...
... Greek in Oxford , Cambridge , and London . John Colet , Dean of St. Paul's , with John Lily , the grammarian , set on foot a school where the classics were taught in a new and practical way . Erasmus , who had all the enthusiasm which ...
Side 73
... Greek and Latin , but in the English tongue so meanly that no man can do worse . ' He has done his work well , and in quaint but charming English . 6 PROSE AND THE REFORMATION . - But the man who did best in English prose was SIR THOMAS ...
... Greek and Latin , but in the English tongue so meanly that no man can do worse . ' He has done his work well , and in quaint but charming English . 6 PROSE AND THE REFORMATION . - But the man who did best in English prose was SIR THOMAS ...
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