From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIII, by Richard GarnettMacmillan, 1935 - English literature |
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... literary composition in a dead language . If Anglo- Saxon literature enjoys the unique position of possessing a vernacular history in its " chronicle , " the cause is not the superior enlightenment of the annalists , but their inability ...
... literary composition in a dead language . If Anglo- Saxon literature enjoys the unique position of possessing a vernacular history in its " chronicle , " the cause is not the superior enlightenment of the annalists , but their inability ...
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... literary genius that England had yet produced . In our next chapter we shall trace the confluence of the Norman and the Saxon literary currents in Geoffrey Chaucer , who not merely summed up in himself the literary influences already ...
... literary genius that England had yet produced . In our next chapter we shall trace the confluence of the Norman and the Saxon literary currents in Geoffrey Chaucer , who not merely summed up in himself the literary influences already ...
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... literary virtues of the period , but Bacon possessed both . As with Chaucer , his genius is attested by his perennial freshness . Representa- tive as he is of his own time , no contemporary has so much the air of a modern . It is ...
... literary virtues of the period , but Bacon possessed both . As with Chaucer , his genius is attested by his perennial freshness . Representa- tive as he is of his own time , no contemporary has so much the air of a modern . It is ...
Contents
Duality of English SpeechThe Celt the Roman and the SaxonChristianity and Anglo | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 37 |
CHAPTER III | 69 |
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