Specimens of English Poetry and Prose: Wybor Poezji i Prozy Angielskiej, Volumes 1-2Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe, 1964 - English literature |
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... English printer , was born in Kent about 1422. After serving his apprenticeship in London with the merchant Robert Lange , who became Lord Mayor , he went to Bruges and so prospered that in 1462 he was Governor of the Guild of English ...
... English printer , was born in Kent about 1422. After serving his apprenticeship in London with the merchant Robert Lange , who became Lord Mayor , he went to Bruges and so prospered that in 1462 he was Governor of the Guild of English ...
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... English for to reduce it into our English now used , and certainly it was wreton in such wise that it was more like to Dutch than English ; I could not reduce ne bring it to be understonden . 14 And certainly our language now used ...
... English for to reduce it into our English now used , and certainly it was wreton in such wise that it was more like to Dutch than English ; I could not reduce ne bring it to be understonden . 14 And certainly our language now used ...
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... English writer on whom German literature has exerted a direct and very considerable influence . So if only for the sake of politeness , a German cannot allow his writings to go unnoticed . In the newest book by Guizot1 , we have seen ...
... English writer on whom German literature has exerted a direct and very considerable influence . So if only for the sake of politeness , a German cannot allow his writings to go unnoticed . In the newest book by Guizot1 , we have seen ...
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