A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper. Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Choice Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms... |
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... English language has since made , than if it were modernised . Before the art of printing was discovered there was no settled method of spelling ; the same word , therefore , will be found spelled different ways . 4 As much . 5 Have ...
... English language has since made , than if it were modernised . Before the art of printing was discovered there was no settled method of spelling ; the same word , therefore , will be found spelled different ways . 4 As much . 5 Have ...
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... English , for profit of Englishmen . For , if worldly clerks look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find , that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , either common language of this ...
... English , for profit of Englishmen . For , if worldly clerks look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find , that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , either common language of this ...
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... language of Barbour is now exceedingly obsolete , we will give but one quotation from his heroic poem . After the painful description of the slavery to which Scotland was reduced by Edward I. , he breaks out in the following noble ...
... language of Barbour is now exceedingly obsolete , we will give but one quotation from his heroic poem . After the painful description of the slavery to which Scotland was reduced by Edward I. , he breaks out in the following noble ...
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... English . The Recuyell ' of the Histories of Troye , which was published at Cologne , 1471 , and is the first book ever printed in the English language . The next year Caxton returned to England , and in 1474 put forth The Game of Chess ...
... English . The Recuyell ' of the Histories of Troye , which was published at Cologne , 1471 , and is the first book ever printed in the English language . The next year Caxton returned to England , and in 1474 put forth The Game of Chess ...
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... language which Shakspeare puts into the mouth of Wolsey to Cromwell , " How wretched Is that poor man who hangs on prince's favors . " Henry VIII . doubtless raised More to this high office , that he might aid him to obtain a divorce ...
... language which Shakspeare puts into the mouth of Wolsey to Cromwell , " How wretched Is that poor man who hangs on prince's favors . " Henry VIII . doubtless raised More to this high office , that he might aid him to obtain a divorce ...
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