A First View of English and American LiteratureC. Scribner's Sons, 1910 - 488 من الصفحات |
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... French knights , and marched to give battle to the forces of Harold , the last of the Saxon kings . REVIEW OUTLINE . - Who were the earliest known inhabitants of Britain during historic times ? How long a period elapsed between the ...
... French knights , and marched to give battle to the forces of Harold , the last of the Saxon kings . REVIEW OUTLINE . - Who were the earliest known inhabitants of Britain during historic times ? How long a period elapsed between the ...
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... French women , adopted French manners and the French tongue . In a little over a century they had grown from a barbarous horde of sea - robbers into the most polished and brilliant people of Europe , whose power was felt in the ...
... French women , adopted French manners and the French tongue . In a little over a century they had grown from a barbarous horde of sea - robbers into the most polished and brilliant people of Europe , whose power was felt in the ...
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... French alone was spoken . Persistence of the Native Speech . — If a prophet had arisen to tell the Norman nobility of the eleventh and twelfth cen- turies , that not French , but English , was destined to be the speech of their ...
... French alone was spoken . Persistence of the Native Speech . — If a prophet had arisen to tell the Norman nobility of the eleventh and twelfth cen- turies , that not French , but English , was destined to be the speech of their ...
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... French elements , and made flexible by use , to be ready for the hand of Chaucer . Fusion of the English and Norman - French Tongues . - But to say that English was " enriched by French elements " is hardly to convey an idea of the ...
... French elements , and made flexible by use , to be ready for the hand of Chaucer . Fusion of the English and Norman - French Tongues . - But to say that English was " enriched by French elements " is hardly to convey an idea of the ...
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... French languages , went the social fusion of the two peoples . The conquerors , we must remember , were originally of the same race as the conquered . By intermarriage with the French their character , it is true , had been much altered ...
... French languages , went the social fusion of the two peoples . The conquerors , we must remember , were originally of the same race as the conquered . By intermarriage with the French their character , it is true , had been much altered ...
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