Masters of English LiteratureA.C. McClurg & Company, 1914 - 446 páginas |
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... London became the political and com- mercial center of the kingdom , the Midland dialect gained the supremacy . As Chaucer is the subject of the next chapter , we need not now discuss the influence of this notable poet . The Elizabethan ...
... London became the political and com- mercial center of the kingdom , the Midland dialect gained the supremacy . As Chaucer is the subject of the next chapter , we need not now discuss the influence of this notable poet . The Elizabethan ...
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... London there is this sobering inscription , " The works of those who have stood the test of ages have a claim to that respect and venera- tion to which no modern can pretend . " We are too close to our own age to estimate its literary ...
... London there is this sobering inscription , " The works of those who have stood the test of ages have a claim to that respect and venera- tion to which no modern can pretend . " We are too close to our own age to estimate its literary ...
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... London . His father and grand- father were vintners , John , the father , probably enjoying the fruits of a good business . Brought up in surroundings not especially conducive to abstinence , and living in a time when cold water as a ...
... London . His father and grand- father were vintners , John , the father , probably enjoying the fruits of a good business . Brought up in surroundings not especially conducive to abstinence , and living in a time when cold water as a ...
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... London , and in 1386 he was elected to Parliament for the county of Kent . On September 6 , 1390 , he was robbed of £ 20 and horse by highwaymen - two separate thefts on the same day ; by a writ of January 6 , 1391 , he was freed from ...
... London , and in 1386 he was elected to Parliament for the county of Kent . On September 6 , 1390 , he was robbed of £ 20 and horse by highwaymen - two separate thefts on the same day ; by a writ of January 6 , 1391 , he was freed from ...
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... London from which travelers started on their jaunt to Canterbury ; " At nyght were come into that hostelrye Wel nyne - and - twenty in a compaignye , . . 99 and the poet gives us in the Prologue an interesting , lifelike ...
... London from which travelers started on their jaunt to Canterbury ; " At nyght were come into that hostelrye Wel nyne - and - twenty in a compaignye , . . 99 and the poet gives us in the Prologue an interesting , lifelike ...
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