A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... close to it , united by a line to mark close connection . By some such suggestive painting upon cotton cloth or aloe leaves did the frightened Mexicans , who dwelt on the coast of the great Gulf , convey to the inland towns the terrible ...
... close to it , united by a line to mark close connection . By some such suggestive painting upon cotton cloth or aloe leaves did the frightened Mexicans , who dwelt on the coast of the great Gulf , convey to the inland towns the terrible ...
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... close his famous History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , written - like nearly all his works - in Latin . Its style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn ...
... close his famous History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , written - like nearly all his works - in Latin . Its style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn ...
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... close of the twelfth century ( of which we have no evidence ) , they were pro- bably designed for the entertainment of the mere commonalty , to whom alone the French language was unknown . 3. In the thirteenth century were composed the ...
... close of the twelfth century ( of which we have no evidence ) , they were pro- bably designed for the entertainment of the mere commonalty , to whom alone the French language was unknown . 3. In the thirteenth century were composed the ...
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... close of the same year he was elected Master of Balliol College . Four years later , the Primate appointed him to the Wardenship of Canterbury Hall , in the room of the deposed Wodehall . Mendicant friars at that time swarmed all over ...
... close of the same year he was elected Master of Balliol College . Four years later , the Primate appointed him to the Wardenship of Canterbury Hall , in the room of the deposed Wodehall . Mendicant friars at that time swarmed all over ...
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... close by in the Abbey , where the dust of England's noblest dead is laid . Chaucer's chequered life was such as to wear off all the little roughnesses and conceits of his earlier character , and bring the fine grain of the manly nature ...
... close by in the Abbey , where the dust of England's noblest dead is laid . Chaucer's chequered life was such as to wear off all the little roughnesses and conceits of his earlier character , and bring the fine grain of the manly nature ...
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