English Literature for Boys and GirlsF. A. Stokes Company, 1916 - 686 When we were little, before we could read for ourselves, did we not gather eagerly round father or mother, friend or nurse, at the promise of a story? When we grew older, what happy hours did we not spend with our books. How the printed words made us forget the world in which we live, and carried us away to a wonderland, |
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... translated , " what they called were , and whence they came , " still keep- ing the alliteration . Upon these rules of accent and alliteration the strict form of Anglo - Saxon verse was based . But when the Normans came they brought a ...
... translated , " what they called were , and whence they came , " still keep- ing the alliteration . Upon these rules of accent and alliteration the strict form of Anglo - Saxon verse was based . But when the Normans came they brought a ...
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... translated books both from French and Dutch , it is perhaps to his delightful prefaces more than to anything else that he owes his title of author . Yet it must be owned that sometimes they are not all quite his own , but parts are ...
... translated books both from French and Dutch , it is perhaps to his delightful prefaces more than to anything else that he owes his title of author . Yet it must be owned that sometimes they are not all quite his own , but parts are ...
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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall. Besides translating some Latin and a few Greek poems Dryden translated stories from Boccaccio , Chaucer's old friend , and last of all he translated Chaucer himself into Drydenese . For in Dryden's day ...
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall. Besides translating some Latin and a few Greek poems Dryden translated stories from Boccaccio , Chaucer's old friend , and last of all he translated Chaucer himself into Drydenese . For in Dryden's day ...
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