A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... head , capped with a serpent crest , with a dwarfish , white - robed body , and , separate from the shoulder , a ... heads , with closed eyes and an ominous , bloody mark upon lip and chin , denoting the capture and beheading of four ...
... head , capped with a serpent crest , with a dwarfish , white - robed body , and , separate from the shoulder , a ... heads , with closed eyes and an ominous , bloody mark upon lip and chin , denoting the capture and beheading of four ...
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... head ; his arms , his face , and lower legs are bare , and painted of a deep red . Two coloured ovals above his head express by figures and signs the names of the king . Four or five upright columns of hieroglyphic symbols tell the ...
... head ; his arms , his face , and lower legs are bare , and painted of a deep red . Two coloured ovals above his head express by figures and signs the names of the king . Four or five upright columns of hieroglyphic symbols tell the ...
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... heads were not free . GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH . - This learned Welsh monk , who died in 1154 , is noted for having preserved the fine antique legends of the Celtic race in his History of the Britons , which he professed to have translated ...
... heads were not free . GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH . - This learned Welsh monk , who died in 1154 , is noted for having preserved the fine antique legends of the Celtic race in his History of the Britons , which he professed to have translated ...
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... head was bare ; a red ribbon hung round his neck ; his shoes were cleanly blacked with soot ; all his ruffs ( this fashion belonged to Elizabeth's own day ) stuck stiffly out with the setting - sticks , which then did the work of starch ...
... head was bare ; a red ribbon hung round his neck ; his shoes were cleanly blacked with soot ; all his ruffs ( this fashion belonged to Elizabeth's own day ) stuck stiffly out with the setting - sticks , which then did the work of starch ...
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... head and assert its native power , and then metrical romances were written in an English form . These first faltering steps of an infant lite- rature were nearly all translations from the French romances , some of which have been ...
... head and assert its native power , and then metrical romances were written in an English form . These first faltering steps of an infant lite- rature were nearly all translations from the French romances , some of which have been ...
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