Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... language in which it may be expressed . For many centuries England did not possess such a language . Different races and tribes peopled it , each having a different speech or dialect , no one tongue being universally under- stood . The ...
... language in which it may be expressed . For many centuries England did not possess such a language . Different races and tribes peopled it , each having a different speech or dialect , no one tongue being universally under- stood . The ...
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... language and literature is partly attributable to the fact that they were so closely allied to the Saxons in race that when they once settled down among them they quickly coalesced with them , and borrowed from the more civilized race ...
... language and literature is partly attributable to the fact that they were so closely allied to the Saxons in race that when they once settled down among them they quickly coalesced with them , and borrowed from the more civilized race ...
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... language - Religious and social influences - Langland - Chaucer - Fifteenth - century poets — Lowland Scotch poetry ... language spoken in London and round about , and thus the language of the Court - the King's Eng- lish ; the language ...
... language - Religious and social influences - Langland - Chaucer - Fifteenth - century poets — Lowland Scotch poetry ... language spoken in London and round about , and thus the language of the Court - the King's Eng- lish ; the language ...
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