A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... common name , find their earliest types in those green tablets we have spoken of , pulled fresh and sappy from the forest bough , and marked with the point of a little thorn ; which , perhaps , by also pinning the pretty sheets together ...
... common name , find their earliest types in those green tablets we have spoken of , pulled fresh and sappy from the forest bough , and marked with the point of a little thorn ; which , perhaps , by also pinning the pretty sheets together ...
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... common form of the book in Greek and Roman days consisted in tablets of wood , ivory , or metal , coated thinly with wax , on which the writer scratched the symbols of his thoughts with a bronze or iron bodkin , ( ypapíov or stilus ...
... common form of the book in Greek and Roman days consisted in tablets of wood , ivory , or metal , coated thinly with wax , on which the writer scratched the symbols of his thoughts with a bronze or iron bodkin , ( ypapíov or stilus ...
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... common bandbox , and filled with papyrus or parchment rolls , which , standing on end , displayed the bright yellow , polished vermilion , or deep jet of their smoothly- cut edges . Let us now see what the men , who wrought out the ...
... common bandbox , and filled with papyrus or parchment rolls , which , standing on end , displayed the bright yellow , polished vermilion , or deep jet of their smoothly- cut edges . Let us now see what the men , who wrought out the ...
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... common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by Wright : " The poetry of the Anglo - Saxons was neither modulated according to foot ...
... common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by Wright : " The poetry of the Anglo - Saxons was neither modulated according to foot ...
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... common in the language of Beowulf , and some are of noble simplicity , such as , " They lay aloft , put to sleep with cwords ; " but in all this long poem there are only five similes . This scarcity of similes is a characteristic of all ...
... common in the language of Beowulf , and some are of noble simplicity , such as , " They lay aloft , put to sleep with cwords ; " but in all this long poem there are only five similes . This scarcity of similes is a characteristic of all ...
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