A History of English Literature: From the beginnings to 1700. 2d edNaouka i Izkoustvo, 1970 - English literature |
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... means of wood - chips with signs scratched on them . Hence the German word for letter Buchstabe " beech - stave ' and English boo k , similarly connected with beech , not to mention Slavonic 6 у KB а , borrowed from the Germanic . The ...
... means of wood - chips with signs scratched on them . Hence the German word for letter Buchstabe " beech - stave ' and English boo k , similarly connected with beech , not to mention Slavonic 6 у KB а , borrowed from the Germanic . The ...
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... means that the drama was beginning to be looked upon as an art , and not merely as a means to moral and religious in- struction . With this little group of humanists the first stage in the develop- ment of Tudor drama is completed . The ...
... means that the drama was beginning to be looked upon as an art , and not merely as a means to moral and religious in- struction . With this little group of humanists the first stage in the develop- ment of Tudor drama is completed . The ...
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... means did differ considerably . For Marston one of the most obvious short - cuts to originality lay in the vocabulary . Here the first line alone contains three words un- known to Shakespeare . And when Jonson turned his guns on Marston ...
... means did differ considerably . For Marston one of the most obvious short - cuts to originality lay in the vocabulary . Here the first line alone contains three words un- known to Shakespeare . And when Jonson turned his guns on Marston ...
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