A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... literary jealousy of the Egyptians stopped the supply of papyrus , caused his subjects to write on sheep - skins , hence called Pergamena or parchment . Vellum , a finer material , is prepared calf - skin . Besides these , a common form ...
... literary jealousy of the Egyptians stopped the supply of papyrus , caused his subjects to write on sheep - skins , hence called Pergamena or parchment . Vellum , a finer material , is prepared calf - skin . Besides these , a common form ...
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... literary toil . Both sword and pen were familiar tools in that cunning right hand . Alfred the Great was born in 848 , at Wantage in Berkshire . Two visits to Rome in his early days gave him a wider range of observation and thought than ...
... literary toil . Both sword and pen were familiar tools in that cunning right hand . Alfred the Great was born in 848 , at Wantage in Berkshire . Two visits to Rome in his early days gave him a wider range of observation and thought than ...
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... literary history of this time was the introduction into England of the Norman Romance . With Chivalry , from which it was inseparable , and from whose stirring life it took all its colours , the Romance rose and fell . From the ...
... literary history of this time was the introduction into England of the Norman Romance . With Chivalry , from which it was inseparable , and from whose stirring life it took all its colours , the Romance rose and fell . From the ...
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... literary talent of the time was spent ; for the one tongue was the speech of courtiers , and the other that of church- men . The English , thoroughly out of fashion , was left in its fall to the serfs and boors of the land . But a day ...
... literary talent of the time was spent ; for the one tongue was the speech of courtiers , and the other that of church- men . The English , thoroughly out of fashion , was left in its fall to the serfs and boors of the land . But a day ...
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... literary career . Dr. Craik thus sums up the leading facts in the history of English metrical romance : — 1. At least the first examples of it were translations from the French . 2. If any such were produced so early as before the close ...
... literary career . Dr. Craik thus sums up the leading facts in the history of English metrical romance : — 1. At least the first examples of it were translations from the French . 2. If any such were produced so early as before the close ...
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