A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... fathers of the tribe were gathered to their rest . In some nations the earliest records were knotted cords . Strings of different colours , with knots of various sizes and variously arranged , contained the national history of the ...
... fathers of the tribe were gathered to their rest . In some nations the earliest records were knotted cords . Strings of different colours , with knots of various sizes and variously arranged , contained the national history of the ...
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... Father of English Poetry ; " nor can the most brilliant of his successors feel ashamed of such a lineage . The accounts of his early life are very uncertain . He calls him- self a Londoner ; and an inscription on his tomb , which ...
... Father of English Poetry ; " nor can the most brilliant of his successors feel ashamed of such a lineage . The accounts of his early life are very uncertain . He calls him- self a Londoner ; and an inscription on his tomb , which ...
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... Father of English Poetry , " the moral Gower , " as his friend Chaucer calls him in the " Troilus and Creseide , " yet holds an honoured place among our earlier bards . We know very little of his personal history . He was , perhaps ...
... Father of English Poetry , " the moral Gower , " as his friend Chaucer calls him in the " Troilus and Creseide , " yet holds an honoured place among our earlier bards . We know very little of his personal history . He was , perhaps ...
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... father , Robert III . , whose heart had been well - nigh broken by the murder of his darling son Rothesay , put his ... father's grey head in sorrow to the grave . This happened in 1405 , when young James was only eleven years of age ...
... father , Robert III . , whose heart had been well - nigh broken by the murder of his darling son Rothesay , put his ... father's grey head in sorrow to the grave . This happened in 1405 , when young James was only eleven years of age ...
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... Father of the English Press ! Born about 1412 in some lonely farm - house , a few of which were thinly scattered over the Weald or wooded part of Kent , William Caxton grew to boyhood among the simple peasants of that wild district ...
... Father of the English Press ! Born about 1412 in some lonely farm - house , a few of which were thinly scattered over the Weald or wooded part of Kent , William Caxton grew to boyhood among the simple peasants of that wild district ...
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