A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... took a solemn fare- well of his friends , distributing among them his treasured spices and other gifts . By sunset there remained but one sentence of the work to do , and scarcely had the concluding words of the Gospel flowed from the ...
... took a solemn fare- well of his friends , distributing among them his treasured spices and other gifts . By sunset there remained but one sentence of the work to do , and scarcely had the concluding words of the Gospel flowed from the ...
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... took all its colours , the Romance rose and fell . From the corrupted Latin a group of dialects arose , called the Roman or Romance tongues ; which , owing to slight intermixture with the barbarous languages , assumed somewhat different ...
... took all its colours , the Romance rose and fell . From the corrupted Latin a group of dialects arose , called the Roman or Romance tongues ; which , owing to slight intermixture with the barbarous languages , assumed somewhat different ...
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... took up this foreign strain , and wrote lays in Norman - French . The deeds of Alexander , Charlemagne , Havelok the Dane , Guy of Warwick , Cœur de Lion , and other such heroes , were celebrated in these romances . In the earlier ...
... took up this foreign strain , and wrote lays in Norman - French . The deeds of Alexander , Charlemagne , Havelok the Dane , Guy of Warwick , Cœur de Lion , and other such heroes , were celebrated in these romances . In the earlier ...
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... 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 - her braver spirits forced , like Hereward and Robin ...
... 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 - her braver spirits forced , like Hereward and Robin ...
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... took a downward step , to be sure , but by no means so great a downward step as the Emperor of Germany would take , if he laid aside the imperial purple for the robes of a first tenor in the Italian Opera . And when Alfred walked among ...
... took a downward step , to be sure , but by no means so great a downward step as the Emperor of Germany would take , if he laid aside the imperial purple for the robes of a first tenor in the Italian Opera . And when Alfred walked among ...
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