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... language ; when , little more than a hundred and fifty years later , they conquered England , they were Christians and French - speaking . But they had earlier common origins with the English , and in fact there had been much coming and ...
... language ; when , little more than a hundred and fifty years later , they conquered England , they were Christians and French - speaking . But they had earlier common origins with the English , and in fact there had been much coming and ...
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David Daiches. democracy in history . The English language , depressed to the level of a language of the illiterate masses , steadily struggled upward until in the end it drove out Norman French and established itself as the sole lan ...
David Daiches. democracy in history . The English language , depressed to the level of a language of the illiterate masses , steadily struggled upward until in the end it drove out Norman French and established itself as the sole lan ...
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David Daiches. ( Thus the language of Pope's translation of Homer is not the same as the language of , say , his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot , which opens with a line almost startling in its domestic familiarity . ) This view , that there ...
David Daiches. ( Thus the language of Pope's translation of Homer is not the same as the language of , say , his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot , which opens with a line almost startling in its domestic familiarity . ) This view , that there ...
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