A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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William Francis Collier. THE VENERABLE BEDE . nay , the Anglo - Saxon ladies , - 23 wrote countless pages of Latin prose and verse . The great subject of these Latin works was theology , as was natural from the circumstance that they ...
William Francis Collier. THE VENERABLE BEDE . nay , the Anglo - Saxon ladies , - 23 wrote countless pages of Latin prose and verse . The great subject of these Latin works was theology , as was natural from the circumstance that they ...
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... ladies , grim giants dwelling in enchanted castles , misshapen dwarfs , fairies kindly and malevolent , dragons and earthdrakes , magicians with their potent wands , pass before us in a highly- coloured , much - distorted panorama . The ...
... ladies , grim giants dwelling in enchanted castles , misshapen dwarfs , fairies kindly and malevolent , dragons and earthdrakes , magicians with their potent wands , pass before us in a highly- coloured , much - distorted panorama . The ...
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... lady and the flowers she has been plucking in a garden , so as to bear upon the praises of the Virgin Mary . Richard I. is said to have composed several military poems * The word Brut is said to be derived either from the name of Brutus ...
... lady and the flowers she has been plucking in a garden , so as to bear upon the praises of the Virgin Mary . Richard I. is said to have composed several military poems * The word Brut is said to be derived either from the name of Brutus ...
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... ladies in a daunce upon the greene grasse ; the which being ended , they all kneele down , and do honour to the daisie , some to the flower , and some to the leafe . The mean- ing hereof is this : -They which honour the flower , a thing ...
... ladies in a daunce upon the greene grasse ; the which being ended , they all kneele down , and do honour to the daisie , some to the flower , and some to the leafe . The mean- ing hereof is this : -They which honour the flower , a thing ...
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... lady ; The ladies all in surcotes , that richely Purfiled were with many a rich stone , And every knight of green ware mantles on . Embrouded well so as the surcotes were , And everich had a chapelet on her hed , Which did right well ...
... lady ; The ladies all in surcotes , that richely Purfiled were with many a rich stone , And every knight of green ware mantles on . Embrouded well so as the surcotes were , And everich had a chapelet on her hed , Which did right well ...
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