English of his tracts, the speech of the ploughman and the trader of the day though colored with the picturesque phraseology of the Bible, is in its literary use as distinctly a creation of his own as the style in which he embodied it, the terse vehement... History of the English People - Página 485por John Richard Green - 1878Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Richard Green - 1874 - 1080 páginas
...tracts, the speech of the plough man and the trader of the day, though coloured with the picturesqu< phraseology of the Bible, is in its literary use as distinctly a creatioi of his own as the style in which he embodied it, the terse vehemen sentences, the stinging... | |
| John Richard Green - 1878 - 622 páginas
...transition which marks the wonderful genius of the man the schoolman was transformed into the pamphleteer. If Chaucer is the father of our -later English poetry,...though coloured with the picturesque phraseology of the BiMe, is in its literary use as distinctly a creation of his own as the style in which he embodied... | |
| John Richard Green - 1878 - 878 páginas
...transition which marks the wonderful genius of the man the school- man was transformed into the pamphleteer. If Chaucer is the father of our later English poetry,...clear, homely English of his tracts, the speech of the plowman and the trader of the day, though colored with the picturesque phraseology of the Bible, is... | |
| Richard Salter Storrs - 1880 - 100 páginas
...companions of their owners." —"Hist. Eng. Bible" p. 24. * " John Widif," etc., Vol. I., p. 347. t " If Chaucer is the father of our later English poetry,...of the ploughman and the trader of the day, though colored with the picturesque phraseology of the Bible, is, in its literary use, as distinctly a creation... | |
| James Mason Hoppin - 1881 - 840 páginas
...school-man was transformed into the pamphleteer. If Chaucer is the father of our later English p&etry, Wyclif is the father of our later English prose. The...* . . rough, clear, homely English of his tracts. English " , " prose. tne sPeecn 0' the plowman and the trades of the day, though colored with the picturesque... | |
| James Mason Hoppin - 1883 - 876 páginas
...transition which marks the wonderful genius of the man, the school-man was transformed into the pamphleteer. If Chaucer is the father of our later English poetry,...prose. The rough, clear, homely English of his tracts, prose tlie speecn of the plowman and the trades of the day, though colored with the picturesque phraseology... | |
| James Mason Hoppin - 1883 - 890 páginas
...transition which marks the wonderful genius of the man, the school-man was transformed into the pamphleteer. If Chaucer is the father of our later English poetry,...Wyclif is the father of our later English prose. The a " '" rough, clear, homely English of his tracts, prose t^ie speecn of the plowman and the trades... | |
| 1890 - 596 páginas
...was transformed into the pamphleteer. If Chaucer is the father of our later English poetry, Wiclif is the father of our later English prose. The rough,...clear, homely English of his tracts, the speech of the plowman and the trader of the day, though colored with the picturesque phraseology of the Bible, is... | |
| Walter William Skeat - 1891 - 548 páginas
...marks the wonderful genius of the man [Wyclif], the schoolman was transformed into the pamphleteer. If Chaucer is the father of our later English poetry, Wyclif is the father of influence was not both considerable and beneficial; but I regard it as altogether a mistake to ascribe... | |
| Walter William Skeat - 1891 - 542 páginas
...marks the wonderful genius of the man [Wyclif], the schoolman was transformed into the pamphleteer. If Chaucer is the father of our later English poetry, Wyclif is the father of influence was not both considerable and beneficial; but I regard it as altogether a mistake to ascribe... | |
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