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... alliterative poems were carried farther north into Scotland . Relations between Scotland and England , and especially between the parts on each side of the Border during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , were not favourable for ...
... alliterative poems were carried farther north into Scotland . Relations between Scotland and England , and especially between the parts on each side of the Border during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , were not favourable for ...
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... alliteration . The result is that the alliterative poems are a real storehouse of Middle English , and from that source alone a very full dictionary could be compiled . If this had been done some fifty or sixty years ago , when the ...
... alliteration . The result is that the alliterative poems are a real storehouse of Middle English , and from that source alone a very full dictionary could be compiled . If this had been done some fifty or sixty years ago , when the ...
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... alliterative line had reached its culminating point by the end of the fourteenth century , and neither England nor Scotland made any worthy addition to it after that date . In the stanzaic rhyming type , on the other hand , the Scottish ...
... alliterative line had reached its culminating point by the end of the fourteenth century , and neither England nor Scotland made any worthy addition to it after that date . In the stanzaic rhyming type , on the other hand , the Scottish ...
Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By J H Clapham | 13 |
ROMANTIC POETRY AND THE FINE ARTS Warton Lecture on English | 101 |
BERKELEYS ARGUMENT ABOUT MATERIAL SUBSTANCE Philo | 119 |
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