A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... kind . Recognising the value of such pictures to the student of national history , I have attempted to reproduce , with some vividness , scenes of vanished author - life , and to trace the chief steps by which a green leaf has become a ...
... kind . Recognising the value of such pictures to the student of national history , I have attempted to reproduce , with some vividness , scenes of vanished author - life , and to trace the chief steps by which a green leaf has become a ...
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... Abbot of Peterborough , may also be named among the crowd of chroniclers who have written on the early history of England . A favourite kind of light reading , often conned by the refectory 32 NATURE OF THE NORMAN ROMANCES . fire in the.
... Abbot of Peterborough , may also be named among the crowd of chroniclers who have written on the early history of England . A favourite kind of light reading , often conned by the refectory 32 NATURE OF THE NORMAN ROMANCES . fire in the.
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... kind of men who wandered from hall to hall , embalming in song those picturesque old histories of early English days , whose very roughness of flow is a new charm , and whose large admixture of highly - coloured fable , if detracting ...
... kind of men who wandered from hall to hall , embalming in song those picturesque old histories of early English days , whose very roughness of flow is a new charm , and whose large admixture of highly - coloured fable , if detracting ...
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... kind of alliteration . rhyme they had none . These attributes of English verse were imported from the Continent by the Normans , who copied both from the decayed Latin . Even before the age of Constantine a species of rhythmical poetry ...
... kind of alliteration . rhyme they had none . These attributes of English verse were imported from the Continent by the Normans , who copied both from the decayed Latin . Even before the age of Constantine a species of rhythmical poetry ...
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... kind words the sick peasant , who had then no better bed than a heap of straw , and no softer pillow than a log of wood . The morning he spent among his books , revising a Latin treatise , or adding some sentences to the English Bible ...
... kind words the sick peasant , who had then no better bed than a heap of straw , and no softer pillow than a log of wood . The morning he spent among his books , revising a Latin treatise , or adding some sentences to the English Bible ...
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