A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... noble simplicity , such as , " They lay aloft , put to sleep with swords ; " but in all this long poem there are only five similes . This scarcity of similes is a characteristic of all Anglo - Saxon verse . CAEDMON , the author of the ...
... noble simplicity , such as , " They lay aloft , put to sleep with swords ; " but in all this long poem there are only five similes . This scarcity of similes is a characteristic of all Anglo - Saxon verse . CAEDMON , the author of the ...
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... noble works of our literature have been composed . The charm of such a book must necessarily be fatal to its value as a history ; for the writer , letting his fancy play upon the adornment of these dim legends , mixes fact with fiction ...
... noble works of our literature have been composed . The charm of such a book must necessarily be fatal to its value as a history ; for the writer , letting his fancy play upon the adornment of these dim legends , mixes fact with fiction ...
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... Noble Authors , " a Provençal form , which he took from a manuscript in the library of San Lorenzo at Florence . SEMI - SAXON WRITERS . As was natural from the miserable state of the Saxon nation immediately after the Conquest - her ...
... Noble Authors , " a Provençal form , which he took from a manuscript in the library of San Lorenzo at Florence . SEMI - SAXON WRITERS . As was natural from the miserable state of the Saxon nation immediately after the Conquest - her ...
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... c . Those attached to noble houses wore the arms of their patron , hung round the neck by a silver chain . The distinc- tive badge of the profession was the wrest or tuning - key . Many THE PICTURE OF A MINSTREL . 37 minstrels carried a.
... c . Those attached to noble houses wore the arms of their patron , hung round the neck by a silver chain . The distinc- tive badge of the profession was the wrest or tuning - key . Many THE PICTURE OF A MINSTREL . 37 minstrels carried a.
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... noble old speech in its infancy , and as a specimen of the style of thought common in an unripe age . Mandeville , roving again from England , died and was buried at Liège in 1372 . The following extract is from the seventh chapter of ...
... noble old speech in its infancy , and as a specimen of the style of thought common in an unripe age . Mandeville , roving again from England , died and was buried at Liège in 1372 . The following extract is from the seventh chapter of ...
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