A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... Masters of Ulster . The very scanty remains of the Scottish Gaelic are of much later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian- Fingal and Temora - which were published in 1762 and 1763 by James Macpherson , as ...
... Masters of Ulster . The very scanty remains of the Scottish Gaelic are of much later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian- Fingal and Temora - which were published in 1762 and 1763 by James Macpherson , as ...
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... Master , " said one of the young monks who wrote for him , " there is but one chapter , but thou canst ill bear questioning . " " Write quickly on , " said Bede . At noon he took a solemn fare- well of his friends , distributing among ...
... Master , " said one of the young monks who wrote for him , " there is but one chapter , but thou canst ill bear questioning . " " Write quickly on , " said Bede . At noon he took a solemn fare- well of his friends , distributing among ...
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... Master Wace . Langton and Richard I. Layamon's " Brut . " The " Ormulum . " THE Norman Conquest wrought great ... masters there , wrote a book called Metalogicus , exposing the absurd and childish INTRODUCTION OF THE NORMAN ROMANCE . 29 ...
... Master Wace . Langton and Richard I. Layamon's " Brut . " The " Ormulum . " THE Norman Conquest wrought great ... masters there , wrote a book called Metalogicus , exposing the absurd and childish INTRODUCTION OF THE NORMAN ROMANCE . 29 ...
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... masters , were all that remained to show that the Saxon tongue was living . Yet living it was , with a wealth of life pent up in its hidden root , which was destined at no very distant day to clothe the shorn stem with the brightest ...
... masters , were all that remained to show that the Saxon tongue was living . Yet living it was , with a wealth of life pent up in its hidden root , which was destined at no very distant day to clothe the shorn stem with the brightest ...
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... Master Wace , as he calls himself , who was born probably at Jersey about 1112. He was educated at Caen , and there he spent nearly all his life . His chief poems are two - Brut * d'Angleterre , and Roman de Rou . The former , a ...
... Master Wace , as he calls himself , who was born probably at Jersey about 1112. He was educated at Caen , and there he spent nearly all his life . His chief poems are two - Brut * d'Angleterre , and Roman de Rou . The former , a ...
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