A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... letters and print our books . In swampy places by the Nile , where the retreating flood had left pools , a yard or so deep , to stagnate under the copper sky , there grew in old times vast forests of tall reeds , whose triangular stems ...
... letters and print our books . In swampy places by the Nile , where the retreating flood had left pools , a yard or so deep , to stagnate under the copper sky , there grew in old times vast forests of tall reeds , whose triangular stems ...
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... letters of which our thirty - eight thousand words are made . Much of this opening chapter deals with countries far from Britain , and an age anterior , in the Old World at least , to the birth of British literature . But it is not a ...
... letters of which our thirty - eight thousand words are made . Much of this opening chapter deals with countries far from Britain , and an age anterior , in the Old World at least , to the birth of British literature . But it is not a ...
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... letters , sitting among his books and plying his patient pen , as his time - candle burns down , ring after ring , through the hours allotted to literary toil . Both sword and pen were familiar tools in that cunning right hand . Alfred ...
... letters , sitting among his books and plying his patient pen , as his time - candle burns down , ring after ring , through the hours allotted to literary toil . Both sword and pen were familiar tools in that cunning right hand . Alfred ...
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... Letters of Alcuin give a life - like picture of the great events of his day . The wars of Charlemagne against the Saracens and the Saxons are there described ; and there , too , we find a graphic account of the inner life of the ...
... Letters of Alcuin give a life - like picture of the great events of his day . The wars of Charlemagne against the Saracens and the Saxons are there described ; and there , too , we find a graphic account of the inner life of the ...
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... letters . William therefore displaced many of them , to make room for polished scholars from the Continent- such as Lanfranc and Anselm , who held the see of Canterbury in succession . The Conqueror , moreover , founded many fine abbeys ...
... letters . William therefore displaced many of them , to make room for polished scholars from the Continent- such as Lanfranc and Anselm , who held the see of Canterbury in succession . The Conqueror , moreover , founded many fine abbeys ...
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