A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... written for the young , —the living interest thus given to a subject for which some have little love , -so much do the colour and the flavour of that wonderful Mind - fruit , called a Book , depend upon the atmosphere in which it has ...
... written for the young , —the living interest thus given to a subject for which some have little love , -so much do the colour and the flavour of that wonderful Mind - fruit , called a Book , depend upon the atmosphere in which it has ...
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... writing with that use of alphabetic symbols so familiar to us that we do not realize its wonder , lies in the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians . Figures of natural objects abound in that system too , but they have now got a deeper ...
... writing with that use of alphabetic symbols so familiar to us that we do not realize its wonder , lies in the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians . Figures of natural objects abound in that system too , but they have now got a deeper ...
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... written a History of the Britons . The Latin poems of St. Columbanus , an Irish missionary to the Gauls , are spoken of by Moore as " shining out in this twilight period of Latin literature with no ordinary distinction . " 18 SAXON ...
... written a History of the Britons . The Latin poems of St. Columbanus , an Irish missionary to the Gauls , are spoken of by Moore as " shining out in this twilight period of Latin literature with no ordinary distinction . " 18 SAXON ...
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... written continuously , like prose ; but the division of the lines is generally marked by a point . " The chief Anglo - Saxon poems that have come down to us are the Romance of Beowulf , and Caedmon's Paraphrase . Beowulf is a nameless ...
... written continuously , like prose ; but the division of the lines is generally marked by a point . " The chief Anglo - Saxon poems that have come down to us are the Romance of Beowulf , and Caedmon's Paraphrase . Beowulf is a nameless ...
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... written in the simplest Anglo - Saxon , for the use of the common people , are undoubtedly his greatest work . Among these is his famous Paschal Sermon , which embodies the Anglo - Saxon belief on the subject of the Lord's Supper ...
... written in the simplest Anglo - Saxon , for the use of the common people , are undoubtedly his greatest work . Among these is his famous Paschal Sermon , which embodies the Anglo - Saxon belief on the subject of the Lord's Supper ...
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