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 7
... Layamon and Others Poetry . John Gower ... Chau- cer . 39 43 His three Periods .... His Character ....... His Canterbury Tales 56 Criticisms of him and Extracts 52 55 45 from ..... 58 ....... Houses of Lancaster and York , and War of the.
... Layamon and Others Poetry . John Gower ... Chau- cer . 39 43 His three Periods .... His Character ....... His Canterbury Tales 56 Criticisms of him and Extracts 52 55 45 from ..... 58 ....... Houses of Lancaster and York , and War of the.
Side 35
... Layamon . It is not till the reign of Edward the Third that original English prose again begins . " 6 " Taking the Chronicle as a whole , I know not where else to find a series of annals so barren of all human interest , and for all ...
... Layamon . It is not till the reign of Edward the Third that original English prose again begins . " 6 " Taking the Chronicle as a whole , I know not where else to find a series of annals so barren of all human interest , and for all ...
Side 38
... Layamon and the Or- mulum come forth within ten years of each other to prove the continuity , the survival , and the victory of the English tongue . When the patriotic struggle closed in the reign of Edward I. , English literature had ...
... Layamon and the Or- mulum come forth within ten years of each other to prove the continuity , the survival , and the victory of the English tongue . When the patriotic struggle closed in the reign of Edward I. , English literature had ...
Side 43
... LAYAMON'S BRUT . - In this French form the story drifted through England , and at last falling into the hands of an English priest in Worcestershire , he resolved to tell it in English verse to his countrymen , and doing so became the ...
... LAYAMON'S BRUT . - In this French form the story drifted through England , and at last falling into the hands of an English priest in Worcestershire , he resolved to tell it in English verse to his countrymen , and doing so became the ...
Side 44
... Layamon ; he was son of Leovenath : may the Lord be gracious unto him ! He dwelt at Earnley , a noble church on the bank of Severn , near Radstone , where he read books . It came in mind to him and in his chiefest thought that he would ...
... Layamon ; he was son of Leovenath : may the Lord be gracious unto him ! He dwelt at Earnley , a noble church on the bank of Severn , near Radstone , where he read books . It came in mind to him and in his chiefest thought that he would ...
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