History of English Literature: Wyclif, Chaucer, earliest drama, renaissance, tr. by W. C. RobinsonG. Belland sons, 1901 - English literature |
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... original in Wyclif's Summa is not so much the ideas themselves as the manner in which they are established and deduced from one another . And although his dialectical style in the details reveals the mediæval schoolman , the plan and ...
... original in Wyclif's Summa is not so much the ideas themselves as the manner in which they are established and deduced from one another . And although his dialectical style in the details reveals the mediæval schoolman , the plan and ...
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... original , as Goethe has shown in his own clear way , with regard to the translation of poetical works . Wyclif and Hereford , conscious of the difficulty of their undertaking , and out of respect for the Scriptures , strove chiefly to ...
... original , as Goethe has shown in his own clear way , with regard to the translation of poetical works . Wyclif and Hereford , conscious of the difficulty of their undertaking , and out of respect for the Scriptures , strove chiefly to ...
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... original version are corrected , but the Latinisms throughout were replaced by good English . * In this new form , which was multiplied by numerous copies , the Bible of Wyclif penetrated among all classes of the peo- ple , and even ...
... original version are corrected , but the Latinisms throughout were replaced by good English . * In this new form , which was multiplied by numerous copies , the Bible of Wyclif penetrated among all classes of the peo- ple , and even ...
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... originals and had begun to entertain no very high idea of their artistic value . No doubt he inhad also read with pleasure and profit works like Robert of Brunne's Handlying Synne and had enjoyed the erotic lyrics of the vagrant clergy ...
... originals and had begun to entertain no very high idea of their artistic value . No doubt he inhad also read with pleasure and profit works like Robert of Brunne's Handlying Synne and had enjoyed the erotic lyrics of the vagrant clergy ...
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... tone and in lengthy but unlimping recital . When Chaucer introduced this measure into the English anguage , he took care to preserve rigorously the original number of syllables , which had not been done by NATURE OF CHAUCER'S VERSES . 47.
... tone and in lengthy but unlimping recital . When Chaucer introduced this measure into the English anguage , he took care to preserve rigorously the original number of syllables , which had not been done by NATURE OF CHAUCER'S VERSES . 47.
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