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... French verse ascribed to Bishop Grosseteste , but really written in French by another Englishman , William of Waddington , a Yorkshire town two or three miles . from Clitheroe . Of this book Robert of Brunne made a free amplified ...
... French verse ascribed to Bishop Grosseteste , but really written in French by another Englishman , William of Waddington , a Yorkshire town two or three miles . from Clitheroe . Of this book Robert of Brunne made a free amplified ...
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... French what blank verse has become to us . Our poets were then experimenting , with various success , in the enrichment of the language with new words from Greek and Latin . Ronsard carried this far , tried Latin signs of comparison ...
... French what blank verse has become to us . Our poets were then experimenting , with various success , in the enrichment of the language with new words from Greek and Latin . Ronsard carried this far , tried Latin signs of comparison ...
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... French in- fluence during many years of its decline . There will be , indeed , another form of French influence upon our literature , not of polite French on polite English , but of nation upon nation . Our political settlement of 1689 ...
... French in- fluence during many years of its decline . There will be , indeed , another form of French influence upon our literature , not of polite French on polite English , but of nation upon nation . Our political settlement of 1689 ...
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