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 23
... look very much since it began to be written . The earliest form of our English tongue is very different from modern English in form , pronunciation , and appearance , and one must learn it almost as if it were a foreign tongue ; but ...
... look very much since it began to be written . The earliest form of our English tongue is very different from modern English in form , pronunciation , and appearance , and one must learn it almost as if it were a foreign tongue ; but ...
Side 31
... God , ' He sang the ' that English prose looks back as its sacred source , as it is in the greatness and variety of Bæda's Latin work that English literature strikes its key- note Prose - Bada , Elfred , and The Chronicle . 31.
... God , ' He sang the ' that English prose looks back as its sacred source , as it is in the greatness and variety of Bæda's Latin work that English literature strikes its key- note Prose - Bada , Elfred , and The Chronicle . 31.
Side 33
... look back as the father of English liter- ature . " " With the Peace of Wedmore in 878 began a work even more noble than this deliverance of Wessex from the Dane . So long as I have lived , ' wrote Ælfred in later days , ' I have ...
... look back as the father of English liter- ature . " " With the Peace of Wedmore in 878 began a work even more noble than this deliverance of Wessex from the Dane . So long as I have lived , ' wrote Ælfred in later days , ' I have ...
Side 46
... look ; ' and the request was the origin of the Confessio Amantis , the Confession of a Lover . " “ Of original imaginative power the poem shows not the slightest trace , and its principal merit lies in the sententious passages which are ...
... look ; ' and the request was the origin of the Confessio Amantis , the Confession of a Lover . " “ Of original imaginative power the poem shows not the slightest trace , and its principal merit lies in the sententious passages which are ...
Side 56
... look was dazed . While at study and when he was making of songs and ditties , ' nothing else that God had made ' had any interest for him . There was but one thing that roused him then , and that too he liked to enjoy alone . It was the ...
... look was dazed . While at study and when he was making of songs and ditties , ' nothing else that God had made ' had any interest for him . There was but one thing that roused him then , and that too he liked to enjoy alone . It was the ...
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