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... prose . For students of literature and history the prose writings of the period are valuable and illuminating , but the interest is largely antiquarian and mainly confined to the curiosity aroused by any performance in a long discarded ...
... prose . For students of literature and history the prose writings of the period are valuable and illuminating , but the interest is largely antiquarian and mainly confined to the curiosity aroused by any performance in a long discarded ...
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... prose , however , there are two points to acknowledge about ourselves . First , that our ideal is a self - conscious literary one , all too rarely followed outside the ... prose . L Yet the failures of Elizabethan prose - writers were due.
... prose , however , there are two points to acknowledge about ourselves . First , that our ideal is a self - conscious literary one , all too rarely followed outside the ... prose . L Yet the failures of Elizabethan prose - writers were due.
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... prose a counterpointed , fugal style inimical to direct statement . If it were possible to separate sound from sense , much Elizabethan prose which irritates us would be found charming . But we cannot by any effort of goodwill read prose ...
... prose a counterpointed , fugal style inimical to direct statement . If it were possible to separate sound from sense , much Elizabethan prose which irritates us would be found charming . But we cannot by any effort of goodwill read prose ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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