A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... earliest types in those green tablets we have spoken of , pulled fresh and sappy from the forest bough , and marked ... early world . Groves were planted , altars raised , cairns heaped up , each to tell some tale of joy or grief ; but ...
... earliest types in those green tablets we have spoken of , pulled fresh and sappy from the forest bough , and marked ... early world . Groves were planted , altars raised , cairns heaped up , each to tell some tale of joy or grief ; but ...
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... early works on rolls of parchment or of papyrus , the famous rush - skin , which has given us a name for that common but very beautiful material on which we write our letters and print our books . In swampy places by the Nile , where ...
... early works on rolls of parchment or of papyrus , the famous rush - skin , which has given us a name for that common but very beautiful material on which we write our letters and print our books . In swampy places by the Nile , where ...
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... early Irish history , are the Annals of Tigernach and of the Four Masters of Ulster . The very scanty remains of the Scottish Gaelic are of much later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian- Fingal and Temora - which ...
... early Irish history , are the Annals of Tigernach and of the Four Masters of Ulster . The very scanty remains of the Scottish Gaelic are of much later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian- Fingal and Temora - which ...
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... early history of the Anglo - Saxons and their Church . At the end of this book Bede gives a list of thirty - eight works , which he had already written or compiled . These are chiefly theological ; but there are , besides , among them ...
... early history of the Anglo - Saxons and their Church . At the end of this book Bede gives a list of thirty - eight works , which he had already written or compiled . These are chiefly theological ; but there are , besides , among them ...
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... early age . His advances in learning were surprisingly rapid , in spite of the convulsive fits to which he was subject , and under the influence of which he thought that he was hunted by devils . Arithmetic , geometry , astronomy , and ...
... early age . His advances in learning were surprisingly rapid , in spite of the convulsive fits to which he was subject , and under the influence of which he thought that he was hunted by devils . Arithmetic , geometry , astronomy , and ...
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