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Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume I by George Lillie Craik
The History of English Literature and Language may be recommended to the student as a guide always sure, and as satisfactory as its limits will admit, to the gathered harvest of a thousand years -- from ALFRED the Great to VICTORIA -- now existing in a language radically identical for the whole of that period, the common property of all who are born to its use, a personal endowment not to be limited by local accidents, but the rightful possession of those who "claim SHAKESPEARE"s language for their
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3.3. The Ormulum. The Ancren Riwle
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3.4. Metrical Legends. Land of Cokayne. Guldevord....
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3.5. History of the English Metrical Romance....
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3.6. Alliterative Verse: Piers Ploughman. Piers...
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4. Third English (mixed or compound English). 1....
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4.2. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 2
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4.3. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 3
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4.4. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 4
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4.5. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 5
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4.8. Compound English Prose: Mandevil and Trevisa
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4.9. Compound English Prose: Wycliffe and Chaucer
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4.10. Literature and Learning in the Fifteenth...
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4.11. Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester. Woodville, Earl...
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4.12. English Poets. Occleve, Lydgate. Scottish...
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4.14. Prose Writers. More, Elyot, Tyndal, Cranmer,...
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4.15. Scottish Prose Writers. English Poets: Hawes,...
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