A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here would be absurd . No fewer than twenty - three figures of birds with spread or folded wings are there . The sign for water is fre- quently repeated . Figures of men kneel and ...
... royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here would be absurd . No fewer than twenty - three figures of birds with spread or folded wings are there . The sign for water is fre- quently repeated . Figures of men kneel and ...
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... royal scholar's life and works . What Alfred did for England in those dark days , when Danish pirates ravaged the land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the ...
... royal scholar's life and works . What Alfred did for England in those dark days , when Danish pirates ravaged the land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the ...
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... royal witling ventured on no more puns , for that day at least , at the scholar's expense . died in France some time previous to the DUNSTAN . One of the foremost Saxons of his day , though more noted for his learning than for his ...
... royal witling ventured on no more puns , for that day at least , at the scholar's expense . died in France some time previous to the DUNSTAN . One of the foremost Saxons of his day , though more noted for his learning than for his ...
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... Royal and Noble Authors , " a Provençal form , which he took from a manuscript in the library of San Lorenzo at Florence . SEMI - SAXON WRITERS . As was natural from the miserable state of the Saxon nation immediately after the Conquest ...
... Royal and Noble Authors , " a Provençal form , which he took from a manuscript in the library of San Lorenzo at Florence . SEMI - SAXON WRITERS . As was natural from the miserable state of the Saxon nation immediately after the Conquest ...
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William Francis Collier. EARLY LIFE OF CHAUCER . 53 Chaucer's early life . Royal patronage . Visits Genoa . CHAPTER IV . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Born about 1328 A.D .......... Died 1400 A.D. Comptroller of Customs . Sunshine . Under Richard ...
William Francis Collier. EARLY LIFE OF CHAUCER . 53 Chaucer's early life . Royal patronage . Visits Genoa . CHAPTER IV . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Born about 1328 A.D .......... Died 1400 A.D. Comptroller of Customs . Sunshine . Under Richard ...
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