A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... chief steps by which a green leaf has become a printed volume . For , to know something of the dress our books have worn at various times , and the stuff of which the older ones were made ; to see the minstrel singing in the Castle hall ...
... chief steps by which a green leaf has become a printed volume . For , to know something of the dress our books have worn at various times , and the stuff of which the older ones were made ; to see the minstrel singing in the Castle hall ...
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... chief materials of which ancient books were made , —the hard and stiff substances being formed into angular tablets , which opened either like the leaves of a European book or like the folding compartments of a screen , —the soft and ...
... chief materials of which ancient books were made , —the hard and stiff substances being formed into angular tablets , which opened either like the leaves of a European book or like the folding compartments of a screen , —the soft and ...
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... chief story is told by the coloured forms of the centre , where we have the sovereign painted twice , as a stern ... chiefs . The four sacked and plundered cities are depicted by roofs falling from ruined walls ; and beside each stands a ...
... chief story is told by the coloured forms of the centre , where we have the sovereign painted twice , as a stern ... chiefs . The four sacked and plundered cities are depicted by roofs falling from ruined walls ; and beside each stands a ...
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... chief and universal characteristic was a very regular alliteration , so arranged that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the first line beginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the ...
... chief and universal characteristic was a very regular alliteration , so arranged that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the first line beginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the ...
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... chief Anglo - Saxon poems that have come down to us are the Romance of Beowulf , and Caedmon's Paraphrase . Beowulf is a nameless poem of more than 6000 lines , thought to be much older than the manuscript of it which we possess . Its ...
... chief Anglo - Saxon poems that have come down to us are the Romance of Beowulf , and Caedmon's Paraphrase . Beowulf is a nameless poem of more than 6000 lines , thought to be much older than the manuscript of it which we possess . Its ...
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