A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... character , will embrace every name of note , from the oldest Celtic bards to Tennyson and Carlyle . The Pre - English Era takes a rapid view of British books and book - makers before the birth of Chaucer , about whose day the true ...
... character , will embrace every name of note , from the oldest Celtic bards to Tennyson and Carlyle . The Pre - English Era takes a rapid view of British books and book - makers before the birth of Chaucer , about whose day the true ...
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... character of Imperial Envoy , Alcuin seems to have settled permanently in France . There his position was a proud one , for he was recognised as chief among the dis- tinguished group of wits and lettered men who encircled the throne of ...
... character of Imperial Envoy , Alcuin seems to have settled permanently in France . There his position was a proud one , for he was recognised as chief among the dis- tinguished group of wits and lettered men who encircled the throne of ...
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... characters being very rare in those benighted days . His chief works are a treatise on Predestination , in which he argues that God has fore - ordained only rewards for the good , and that man has brought evil on himself by the exercise ...
... characters being very rare in those benighted days . His chief works are a treatise on Predestination , in which he argues that God has fore - ordained only rewards for the good , and that man has brought evil on himself by the exercise ...
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... Character of his prose . Illustrative extract . On a rocky point , overhanging the Tees in Yorkshire , a manor- house stood , in which once lived the Wycliffes of Wycliffe . * There , probably in 1324 , a boy was born , who has gilded ...
... Character of his prose . Illustrative extract . On a rocky point , overhanging the Tees in Yorkshire , a manor- house stood , in which once lived the Wycliffes of Wycliffe . * There , probably in 1324 , a boy was born , who has gilded ...
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... Character . The " Canterbury Tales . " Manner of reading Chaucer . Minor works . Illustrative extracts . CHAUCER is a star of the first magnitude . First great writer of English verse , he proudly wears the honoured title , - " Father ...
... Character . The " Canterbury Tales . " Manner of reading Chaucer . Minor works . Illustrative extracts . CHAUCER is a star of the first magnitude . First great writer of English verse , he proudly wears the honoured title , - " Father ...
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