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... seemed about to disappear and English historical prose appeared to have come to an end . Until well into the fourteenth century , English , replaced at court by Norman French since 1066 , seemed to be dwindling away into the rustic ...
... seemed about to disappear and English historical prose appeared to have come to an end . Until well into the fourteenth century , English , replaced at court by Norman French since 1066 , seemed to be dwindling away into the rustic ...
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... seemed , and fair did sit , As one for knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit . Yet the poem is not a sequence of pictorial scenes , each with its moral and religious and political allegorical significance . The shifts in tone and ...
... seemed , and fair did sit , As one for knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit . Yet the poem is not a sequence of pictorial scenes , each with its moral and religious and political allegorical significance . The shifts in tone and ...
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... seemed to be able to strike the right note with unerring felicity . True , the style of the Authorized Version was in some degree archaic by now , and the revisers were thus deliberately perpetuating a biblical style which was something ...
... seemed to be able to strike the right note with unerring felicity . True , the style of the Authorized Version was in some degree archaic by now , and the revisers were thus deliberately perpetuating a biblical style which was something ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE | 3 |
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THE VICTORIAN POETS 993 | 13 |
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