A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 էջ |
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... Italy , France , and Spain . In France two dialects of the Ro- mance language were spoken , distinguished in name by the peculiar words used for our " yes " —oc , ( hoc ) , and oyl , oy , or oui ( probably illud ) . The language of oc ...
... Italy , France , and Spain . In France two dialects of the Ro- mance language were spoken , distinguished in name by the peculiar words used for our " yes " —oc , ( hoc ) , and oyl , oy , or oui ( probably illud ) . The language of oc ...
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... Italian Opera . And when Alfred walked among the tents of Guthrum's camp , a servant bore his harp behind him — a thing which would have at once revealed the secret of the singer , if it had not been a very usual occurrence . Gleeman ...
... Italian Opera . And when Alfred walked among the tents of Guthrum's camp , a servant bore his harp behind him — a thing which would have at once revealed the secret of the singer , if it had not been a very usual occurrence . Gleeman ...
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... Italy , to have visited Petrarch at Padua , and to have heard from the very lips of that " old man eloquent , " the story of " Patient Grisilde , " which he afterwards embodied in the Clerkes Tale . A.D. Then came other royal grants ...
... Italy , to have visited Petrarch at Padua , and to have heard from the very lips of that " old man eloquent , " the story of " Patient Grisilde , " which he afterwards embodied in the Clerkes Tale . A.D. Then came other royal grants ...
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... Italian , and Latin . The Court of Love , and a heavy tragic poem in five books , called Troilus and Creseide , are thought to have been the work of his college days . The Romaunt of the Rose is an allegory , in which the troubled ...
... Italian , and Latin . The Court of Love , and a heavy tragic poem in five books , called Troilus and Creseide , are thought to have been the work of his college days . The Romaunt of the Rose is an allegory , in which the troubled ...
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... Italian monk of the thirteenth century . On the whole , Occleve's verse must be judged rather by its quan- tity than ... Italy . On his return home he opened a school for the instruction of the young in verse - making and polite composi ...
... Italian monk of the thirteenth century . On the whole , Occleve's verse must be judged rather by its quan- tity than ... Italy . On his return home he opened a school for the instruction of the young in verse - making and polite composi ...
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