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Page xiii
... century had advanced some years before such a sentiment as curiosity in regard to the private lives of great authors can be said to have existed . The gradual awakening of some such interest brought in its train a series of classified ...
... century had advanced some years before such a sentiment as curiosity in regard to the private lives of great authors can be said to have existed . The gradual awakening of some such interest brought in its train a series of classified ...
Page xiv
... centuries at most - and that of England is no exception . " Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay . " That at any rate is the European point of view . Starting with a language and vocabulary in some respects rudimentary ...
... centuries at most - and that of England is no exception . " Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay . " That at any rate is the European point of view . Starting with a language and vocabulary in some respects rudimentary ...
Page xv
... century which unites the com- mencement of The Canterbury Tales in 1391 with the completion of Caxton's life - work just one hundred years later . The first subject , which is not ours , is the early literature of Britain - a literature ...
... century which unites the com- mencement of The Canterbury Tales in 1391 with the completion of Caxton's life - work just one hundred years later . The first subject , which is not ours , is the early literature of Britain - a literature ...
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... century and a half . It is an age of critical com- mentary and pungent epigram , of prose essay and verse satire . It is an age when the class of readers was im- mensely enlarged . Men began to collect in coffee - houses and divert ...
... century and a half . It is an age of critical com- mentary and pungent epigram , of prose essay and verse satire . It is an age when the class of readers was im- mensely enlarged . Men began to collect in coffee - houses and divert ...
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... centuries before Caxton's time was transitional between the Gothic dialect of Anglo- Saxon ( akin to the Low Dutch ... century before Chaucer , however , English was rapidly gaining ground . The mix- ture of peoples had rubbed off the ...
... centuries before Caxton's time was transitional between the Gothic dialect of Anglo- Saxon ( akin to the Low Dutch ... century before Chaucer , however , English was rapidly gaining ground . The mix- ture of peoples had rubbed off the ...
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Page 217 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.