A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... land ........... II . Roger Ascham ........................ 108 VIII . Our English Bible ...... IX . William Shakspere ...... ...... . X. Sir Walter Raleigh ....... 135 140 150 III . George Buchanan 112 XI . Francis Bacon , Viscount St ...
... land ........... II . Roger Ascham ........................ 108 VIII . Our English Bible ...... IX . William Shakspere ...... ...... . X. Sir Walter Raleigh ....... 135 140 150 III . George Buchanan 112 XI . Francis Bacon , Viscount St ...
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... land and sea , slays a monster , Grendel , but is himself slain in an attack upon a huge dragon . It is a striking picture of dim old Gothic days , much heightened in its effect by the minuteness of the descriptive lines . As we read ...
... land and sea , slays a monster , Grendel , but is himself slain in an attack upon a huge dragon . It is a striking picture of dim old Gothic days , much heightened in its effect by the minuteness of the descriptive lines . As we read ...
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... land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the banks of the Lea , that we must view this greatest of the Anglo - Saxons ; but as the peaceful man of letters ...
... land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the banks of the Lea , that we must view this greatest of the Anglo - Saxons ; but as the peaceful man of letters ...
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... land . His chief teacher was an Irish monk named Meildulf , who lived a hermit life under the shade of the great oak trees in north - eastern Wilt- shire . When the followers of Meildulf were formed into a mon- astery bearing its ...
... land . His chief teacher was an Irish monk named Meildulf , who lived a hermit life under the shade of the great oak trees in north - eastern Wilt- shire . When the followers of Meildulf were formed into a mon- astery bearing its ...
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... land , sang ballads of love and war ; the monk sat in his dim - lit cell penning tomes of unreadable theology , very useless logic , or dry but valuable history , and varying these sterner labours with the graceful task of copying and ...
... land , sang ballads of love and war ; the monk sat in his dim - lit cell penning tomes of unreadable theology , very useless logic , or dry but valuable history , and varying these sterner labours with the graceful task of copying and ...
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