A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... style , are appended to all the leading lives . Since names that cannot be passed over grow very thick towards the end , the closing chapters of the last two Eras have been arranged upon a plan which prevents confusion , and , by the ...
... style , are appended to all the leading lives . Since names that cannot be passed over grow very thick towards the end , the closing chapters of the last two Eras have been arranged upon a plan which prevents confusion , and , by the ...
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... style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn nearly all we know of the early history of the Anglo - Saxons and their Church . At the end of this book Bede ...
... style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn nearly all we know of the early history of the Anglo - Saxons and their Church . At the end of this book Bede ...
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... , or often refused to creak at all . We pass through the arched gateway - rounded if the building be of the earlier Norman style , pointed if of the later Gothic — and . THE SCRIPTORIUM . 41 across the broad quadrangle , through.
... , or often refused to creak at all . We pass through the arched gateway - rounded if the building be of the earlier Norman style , pointed if of the later Gothic — and . THE SCRIPTORIUM . 41 across the broad quadrangle , through.
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... style of thought common in an unripe age . Mandeville , roving again from England , died and was buried at Liège in 1372 . The following extract is from the seventh chapter of his Travels , entitled , " Of the Pilgrimages in Jerusalem ...
... style of thought common in an unripe age . Mandeville , roving again from England , died and was buried at Liège in 1372 . The following extract is from the seventh chapter of his Travels , entitled , " Of the Pilgrimages in Jerusalem ...
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... style , and sometimes lapses into lame and slovenly language . We may compare him , as an opponent of error , not to a gallant master of fence , glistening in well - cut taffeta , who with keen glittering rapier lunges home to the heart ...
... style , and sometimes lapses into lame and slovenly language . We may compare him , as an opponent of error , not to a gallant master of fence , glistening in well - cut taffeta , who with keen glittering rapier lunges home to the heart ...
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