A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... expressing abstractions , or qualities considered alone . Thus the queen bee represents royalty ; the bull , strength ; an ostrich feather , from the evenness of its filaments , truth 14 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS . or justice . The figures ...
... expressing abstractions , or qualities considered alone . Thus the queen bee represents royalty ; the bull , strength ; an ostrich feather , from the evenness of its filaments , truth 14 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS . or justice . The figures ...
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... Queen Elizabeth , describes the dress of a minstrel , who took a prominent part in the pageant . He was dressed in a long gown of Kendal green , with sleeves hanging down to the middle of the leg ; a red belt girt his waist ; his ...
... Queen Elizabeth , describes the dress of a minstrel , who took a prominent part in the pageant . He was dressed in a long gown of Kendal green , with sleeves hanging down to the middle of the leg ; a red belt girt his waist ; his ...
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... Queen's College , a newly founded school . From Queen's he soon removed to Merton . The students of Oxford in that day were , as we learn from Chaucer's pictured page , as strongly marked out into reading men and fast men as they are in ...
... Queen's College , a newly founded school . From Queen's he soon removed to Merton . The students of Oxford in that day were , as we learn from Chaucer's pictured page , as strongly marked out into reading men and fast men as they are in ...
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... Queen Margaret into France , where he lived in exile for some time . Out of evil came good . We owe to this banishment one of the finest of our early English law- books , De Laudibus Legum Angliae , written in the form of a conversation ...
... Queen Margaret into France , where he lived in exile for some time . Out of evil came good . We owe to this banishment one of the finest of our early English law- books , De Laudibus Legum Angliae , written in the form of a conversation ...
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... , Archdeacon of Moray and a Lord of Session under Queen Mary , produced in 1536 , by order of James V. , a translation of Hector Boece's History of Scotland . This is con- PROSE WRITERS OF THE SECOND ERA . 99 sidered the.
... , Archdeacon of Moray and a Lord of Session under Queen Mary , produced in 1536 , by order of James V. , a translation of Hector Boece's History of Scotland . This is con- PROSE WRITERS OF THE SECOND ERA . 99 sidered the.
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