A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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Page 11
... deep , to stagnate under the copper sky , there grew in old times vast forests of tall reeds , whose triangular stems , some six or eight feet high , bore tufted plumes of hair - like fibres . Wading in these shallows , where the ibis ...
... deep , to stagnate under the copper sky , there grew in old times vast forests of tall reeds , whose triangular stems , some six or eight feet high , bore tufted plumes of hair - like fibres . Wading in these shallows , where the ibis ...
Page 12
... deep jet of their smoothly- cut edges . Let us now see what the men , who wrought out the wonders of ancient history , cut or painted on their granite slabs , their cloths of cotton or linen , their sheep - skins , or their slips of ...
... deep jet of their smoothly- cut edges . Let us now see what the men , who wrought out the wonders of ancient history , cut or painted on their granite slabs , their cloths of cotton or linen , their sheep - skins , or their slips of ...
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... deep red ; wooden instruments are pale orange or buff ; bronze utensils , green . The effect of a hiero- glyphic writing as it strikes the eye is very brilliant , the primary colours - red , yellow , and blue - being the prevailing hues ...
... deep red ; wooden instruments are pale orange or buff ; bronze utensils , green . The effect of a hiero- glyphic writing as it strikes the eye is very brilliant , the primary colours - red , yellow , and blue - being the prevailing hues ...
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... deep and bloody gash upon the fair English shore . Frightened at such tales , he asked from the emperor a post , in which he might calmly pass the evening of his days . The Abbey of Tours , falling vacant just then , became his place of ...
... deep and bloody gash upon the fair English shore . Frightened at such tales , he asked from the emperor a post , in which he might calmly pass the evening of his days . The Abbey of Tours , falling vacant just then , became his place of ...
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... deep interest , both as a remarkable monument of our noble old speech in its infancy , and as a specimen of the style of thought common in an unripe age . Mandeville , roving again from England , died and was buried at Liège in 1372 ...
... deep interest , both as a remarkable monument of our noble old speech in its infancy , and as a specimen of the style of thought common in an unripe age . Mandeville , roving again from England , died and was buried at Liège in 1372 ...
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