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David Daiches. advanced than anything in French prose , did not prevent French influence from making verse the medium of much Middle English historical and miscellaneous writing for which prose would have been ( and , in the Anglo ...
David Daiches. advanced than anything in French prose , did not prevent French influence from making verse the medium of much Middle English historical and miscellaneous writing for which prose would have been ( and , in the Anglo ...
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... French and translate and do their lessons in English . This sets the date of the change from French to English as the means of instruction in schools fairly precisely , and when we realize that formal educational methods are always ...
... French and translate and do their lessons in English . This sets the date of the change from French to English as the means of instruction in schools fairly precisely , and when we realize that formal educational methods are always ...
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... French romances surrounded their action . Such romances were pro- duced in England as well as in France , for , as we have seen , French was the language of the English upper class from the Conquest until the fourteenth century , and ...
... French romances surrounded their action . Such romances were pro- duced in England as well as in France , for , as we have seen , French was the language of the English upper class from the Conquest until the fourteenth century , and ...
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