English Literature Primers: Romance PeriodHarper & brothers, 1878 - 153 стор. |
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... and reform became once more familiar to men ; when kings , chiefs , nobles , ceased to be looked upon as God's vicegerents ; when men began to think THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY . 13 for themselves on all important 12 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... and reform became once more familiar to men ; when kings , chiefs , nobles , ceased to be looked upon as God's vicegerents ; when men began to think THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY . 13 for themselves on all important 12 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... King Edward III . , the terror of France and of his own people , was the petty tyrant of perhaps two millions of subjects . His miserable realm was taxed and harried to maintain the useless conquests of the cruel Black Prince . War was ...
... King Edward III . , the terror of France and of his own people , was the petty tyrant of perhaps two millions of subjects . His miserable realm was taxed and harried to maintain the useless conquests of the cruel Black Prince . War was ...
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... king . The Black Prince , cruel yet courteous , gave to the hor- rible outrages of war some traces of for- bearance . The young princes with whom Chaucer came into contact were apparently not opposed to the cultivation of letters and ...
... king . The Black Prince , cruel yet courteous , gave to the hor- rible outrages of war some traces of for- bearance . The young princes with whom Chaucer came into contact were apparently not opposed to the cultivation of letters and ...
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... king unto God made his bone , And God sent him gude comfort sone , The weder wex ful clere , Oure king and his men held the felde Stalworthly , with spere and schelde , And thought to win his right , etc. About 1340 , Richard de Hampole ...
... king unto God made his bone , And God sent him gude comfort sone , The weder wex ful clere , Oure king and his men held the felde Stalworthly , with spere and schelde , And thought to win his right , etc. About 1340 , Richard de Hampole ...
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... king , to whom he addresses several wise admo- nitions , reigned from 1377 to 1399 , the most productive and varied period of the poet's life . Richard is one of the most remarka- ble and the least understood of England's monarchs , his ...
... king , to whom he addresses several wise admo- nitions , reigned from 1377 to 1399 , the most productive and varied period of the poet's life . Richard is one of the most remarka- ble and the least understood of England's monarchs , his ...
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