English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Volumen1Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... mind with that masterful and subduing power which still belongs to the lyrical stanzas of the troubadours and minnesingers , to Welsh romance , or to the epic prose of the Iceland histories . The Norman Conquest degraded the English ...
... mind with that masterful and subduing power which still belongs to the lyrical stanzas of the troubadours and minnesingers , to Welsh romance , or to the epic prose of the Iceland histories . The Norman Conquest degraded the English ...
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... mind at any rate is well represented . Prose and its development can be observed very fully and satisfactorily from a very early date . One of the chief interests of the early literature is that it reflects the process by which the ...
... mind at any rate is well represented . Prose and its development can be observed very fully and satisfactorily from a very early date . One of the chief interests of the early literature is that it reflects the process by which the ...
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... mind . Even after he had come to his own , and found his true genius , he kept a retreat open into the comfortable ... minds of these authors are represented or symbolised in numbers of composite medieval manuscript books , where there ...
... mind . Even after he had come to his own , and found his true genius , he kept a retreat open into the comfortable ... minds of these authors are represented or symbolised in numbers of composite medieval manuscript books , where there ...
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... mind of the fourteenth century . To that part of him belong all his prose works . The Tale of Melibeus is repre- sentative of the ideas and tastes of millions of good souls . Being representative , it could not be alien from Chaucer ...
... mind of the fourteenth century . To that part of him belong all his prose works . The Tale of Melibeus is repre- sentative of the ideas and tastes of millions of good souls . Being representative , it could not be alien from Chaucer ...
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... mind pleased with the refinements of scholastic reasoning , and enjoying its own acuteness . Many of the argu- ments he employs are far - fetched and ingenious rather than fitted to convince us of the sincerity of the writer . But the ...
... mind pleased with the refinements of scholastic reasoning , and enjoying its own acuteness . Many of the argu- ments he employs are far - fetched and ingenious rather than fitted to convince us of the sincerity of the writer . But the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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