History of English Literature: Wyclif, Chaucer, earliest drama, renaissance, tr. by W. C. RobinsonG. Belland sons, 1901 - English literature |
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... bring- ing the work more closely home to his English and American readers , on whose appreciation he set great value . But I have naturally refrained from making much use of such flattering confidence ; any changes or additions are duly ...
... bring- ing the work more closely home to his English and American readers , on whose appreciation he set great value . But I have naturally refrained from making much use of such flattering confidence ; any changes or additions are duly ...
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... bring the reformer to this same conclusion , nor the exact meaning he gave to his own doctrine . The literary historian has little to do with theology ; it is scarcely his office even to attempt a psychological explanation of the manner ...
... bring the reformer to this same conclusion , nor the exact meaning he gave to his own doctrine . The literary historian has little to do with theology ; it is scarcely his office even to attempt a psychological explanation of the manner ...
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... bring up in these works against his opponents . His anger often makes him witty ; he likes to combat his rivals with puns and nicknames . For the falsi fratres of the Bible , he borrows from Langland the pointed translation of " false ...
... bring up in these works against his opponents . His anger often makes him witty ; he likes to combat his rivals with puns and nicknames . For the falsi fratres of the Bible , he borrows from Langland the pointed translation of " false ...
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... bring it about , begins with the Romance of the Rose - that singular and marvelous poem , which , in its two very dissimilar parts , is typical , in more ways than one , of the culture of the vanishing Middle Ages . Taken all in all ...
... bring it about , begins with the Romance of the Rose - that singular and marvelous poem , which , in its two very dissimilar parts , is typical , in more ways than one , of the culture of the vanishing Middle Ages . Taken all in all ...
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... brings it into a new connection , suited to the higher purposes of his own poetry . At the beginning Chaucer pictures to us his peculiar condition . For a long time he has been suffering from sleeplessness ; this brought on the feeling ...
... brings it into a new connection , suited to the higher purposes of his own poetry . At the beginning Chaucer pictures to us his peculiar condition . For a long time he has been suffering from sleeplessness ; this brought on the feeling ...
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