A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes ... : Designed as a Text-book for the Highest Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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... language , therefore , is such as our ancestors used more than three centuries ago , and it is here given not only as a curiosity , but from the belief that it will be read with more satisfaction , and convey a much better idea of the ...
... language , therefore , is such as our ancestors used more than three centuries ago , and it is here given not only as a curiosity , but from the belief that it will be read with more satisfaction , and convey a much better idea of the ...
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... language . Why shoulden not Englishmen have the same in their mother language ? I cannot wit . " No , but for falseness and negligence of clerks , either for our people is not worthy to have so great grace and gift of God , in pain of ...
... language . Why shoulden not Englishmen have the same in their mother language ? I cannot wit . " No , but for falseness and negligence of clerks , either for our people is not worthy to have so great grace and gift of God , in pain of ...
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... language , he labored to reform its irregularities , and to establish an English style . In these respects he resembled Chaucer , but he has little of his spirit , imagination , or elegance . His language is tolerably perspicuous , and ...
... language , he labored to reform its irregularities , and to establish an English style . In these respects he resembled Chaucer , but he has little of his spirit , imagination , or elegance . His language is tolerably perspicuous , and ...
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... language as we can , inter- spersing here and there a few lines of the original . There was , in days of old , as men tell , a worthy knight by the name of Florent ; nephew to the emperor , and of great strength and courage . He was ...
... language as we can , inter- spersing here and there a few lines of the original . There was , in days of old , as men tell , a worthy knight by the name of Florent ; nephew to the emperor , and of great strength and courage . He was ...
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... language . The next year Caxton returned to England , and in 1474 put forth The Game of Chess , remarkable as being the first book ever printed in England . It was entitled , The Game and Playe of the Chesse : Translated out of the ...
... language . The next year Caxton returned to England , and in 1474 put forth The Game of Chess , remarkable as being the first book ever printed in England . It was entitled , The Game and Playe of the Chesse : Translated out of the ...
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