A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... appeared . They painted the great ships , the pale , bearded men , the cannon breathing flames and smoke and hurling distant trees in splinters to the earth ; and no sadder picture was ever unrolled in the splendid palace of Monte- zuma ...
... appeared . They painted the great ships , the pale , bearded men , the cannon breathing flames and smoke and hurling distant trees in splinters to the earth ; and no sadder picture was ever unrolled in the splendid palace of Monte- zuma ...
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... appeared , at least so far as we know . Metrical romances in Latin and French were plentiful enough , and on them all the literary talent of the time was spent ; for the one tongue was the speech of courtiers , and the other that of ...
... appeared , at least so far as we know . Metrical romances in Latin and French were plentiful enough , and on them all the literary talent of the time was spent ; for the one tongue was the speech of courtiers , and the other that of ...
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... appeared as a printer , having learned the art , as he tells us , at considerable expense . His instructor , from whom he , no doubt , bought his first set of types , may have been one of Faust's workmen , who had been driven from Mentz ...
... appeared as a printer , having learned the art , as he tells us , at considerable expense . His instructor , from whom he , no doubt , bought his first set of types , may have been one of Faust's workmen , who had been driven from Mentz ...
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... appeared in 1534. The run upon the book , both on the Continent and in England , was very great . Copies poured by hundreds from the foreign presses into England . In vain the terrors of the Church were threatened and inflicted upon the ...
... appeared in 1534. The run upon the book , both on the Continent and in England , was very great . Copies poured by hundreds from the foreign presses into England . In vain the terrors of the Church were threatened and inflicted upon the ...
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... appearance of our earliest Comedy , came the Interludes , which strongly resembled our modern Farce . Of these John Heywood was the most noted writer . He lived in the reign of Henry VIII . , whose idle hours he often amused with his ...
... appearance of our earliest Comedy , came the Interludes , which strongly resembled our modern Farce . Of these John Heywood was the most noted writer . He lived in the reign of Henry VIII . , whose idle hours he often amused with his ...
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