A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... born power in his breast . The mantle of song had fallen on him ; and when next day , before the Abbess Hilda and some of the scholars of the place , he told what had occurred , they gave 20 " " THE PARAPHRASE OF CAEDMON . him a.
... born power in his breast . The mantle of song had fallen on him ; and when next day , before the Abbess Hilda and some of the scholars of the place , he told what had occurred , they gave 20 " " THE PARAPHRASE OF CAEDMON . him a.
Page 21
... gave him a wider range of observation and thought than Anglo - Saxon children commonly enjoyed . When he had reached his twelfth year , he won as a prize a beautiful book of Saxon poetry , which his mother had promised to that one of ...
... gave him a wider range of observation and thought than Anglo - Saxon children commonly enjoyed . When he had reached his twelfth year , he won as a prize a beautiful book of Saxon poetry , which his mother had promised to that one of ...
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... gave a mortal wound to the minstrel craft . Cromwell , too , denounced terrible penalties against fiddlers or minstrels . So low had the brotherhood of old Homer fallen ! In more enlightened days the poet and the musician have found ...
... gave a mortal wound to the minstrel craft . Cromwell , too , denounced terrible penalties against fiddlers or minstrels . So low had the brotherhood of old Homer fallen ! In more enlightened days the poet and the musician have found ...
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... gave way under the mental wear of these troubled years . He lay , as it seemed , on the point of death , when eight men - four doctors to represent the mendicant friars , and four aldermen of the town - entered his chamber . They came ...
... gave way under the mental wear of these troubled years . He lay , as it seemed , on the point of death , when eight men - four doctors to represent the mendicant friars , and four aldermen of the town - entered his chamber . They came ...
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... gave to the service of his Master . With- out straining the figure far , we can truly say that his Bible was written with his blood . One Henry Philips , English student at Louvain , by the basest treachery betrayed him in 1534 into the ...
... gave to the service of his Master . With- out straining the figure far , we can truly say that his Bible was written with his blood . One Henry Philips , English student at Louvain , by the basest treachery betrayed him in 1534 into the ...
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