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... whole Bible , though he himself did but part of the work , probably the New Testament and portions of the Old . His style is more archaic than that of some earlier writers of English prose , and the following passage from the parable of ...
... whole Bible , though he himself did but part of the work , probably the New Testament and portions of the Old . His style is more archaic than that of some earlier writers of English prose , and the following passage from the parable of ...
Page 78
... whole . He ' edited ' Malory , rather unskilfully , following the original text closely in most places , though with substantial reductions in length , and adopting a different system of division by splitting the eight tales into twenty ...
... whole . He ' edited ' Malory , rather unskilfully , following the original text closely in most places , though with substantial reductions in length , and adopting a different system of division by splitting the eight tales into twenty ...
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... whole content of his poetry , which is almost the whole con- tent of the Renaissance mind and spirit moulded ( and in certain respects misshapen ) by the circumstances and events of the late sixteenth century . It is more sensible and ...
... whole content of his poetry , which is almost the whole con- tent of the Renaissance mind and spirit moulded ( and in certain respects misshapen ) by the circumstances and events of the late sixteenth century . It is more sensible and ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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