History of English Literature: Wyclif, Chaucer, earliest drama, renaissance, tr. by W. C. RobinsonG. Belland sons, 1901 - English literature |
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... sometimes he em- ploys two words where the original has only one , and he even incorporates some glosses in his text . He observes rather the rule of being true to the spirit ; Hereford , to the letter . By his translation of the Bible ...
... sometimes he em- ploys two words where the original has only one , and he even incorporates some glosses in his text . He observes rather the rule of being true to the spirit ; Hereford , to the letter . By his translation of the Bible ...
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... sometimes in a didactic , sometimes in a polemical , form ; to treat of dogmatic and moral questions relating to the church and church reform , worship and the sacrament of the altar , Pope and prelates , parsons and the " poor priests ...
... sometimes in a didactic , sometimes in a polemical , form ; to treat of dogmatic and moral questions relating to the church and church reform , worship and the sacrament of the altar , Pope and prelates , parsons and the " poor priests ...
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... sometimes uniting with a maidenly coyness and modesty the most overmastering desire for battles and adventures , which impelled them over all the world ; sometimes thwarting the calculations of a prudent policy by the momentary outbreak ...
... sometimes uniting with a maidenly coyness and modesty the most overmastering desire for battles and adventures , which impelled them over all the world ; sometimes thwarting the calculations of a prudent policy by the momentary outbreak ...
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... sometimes really pretty . But Chaucer did not let himself be led astray by ex- amples such as these . It is possible that he would have found writing in French no easy task , even if he had at- * Gower probably commenced this kind of ...
... sometimes really pretty . But Chaucer did not let himself be led astray by ex- amples such as these . It is possible that he would have found writing in French no easy task , even if he had at- * Gower probably commenced this kind of ...
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... sometimes greatly overcharged ; was afterwards a constant peculiarity of Chaucer's to himself go easily along in a free and flowing dictio and therefore also in this early work he very often tra gresses the proper limits in the length ...
... sometimes greatly overcharged ; was afterwards a constant peculiarity of Chaucer's to himself go easily along in a free and flowing dictio and therefore also in this early work he very often tra gresses the proper limits in the length ...
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