A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... the Minstrel remained a player of music only . Had Alfred Tennyson lived six hundred years ago , in order to win the laurel- crown which he worthily wears as first minstrel in the land , he 38 FALL OF THE MINSTREL CRAFT . would have needed.
... the Minstrel remained a player of music only . Had Alfred Tennyson lived six hundred years ago , in order to win the laurel- crown which he worthily wears as first minstrel in the land , he 38 FALL OF THE MINSTREL CRAFT . would have needed.
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... land . But a day came , about the opening of the thirteenth century , when the enslaved speech began to raise its diminished head and assert its native power , and then metrical romances were written in an English form . These first ...
... land . But a day came , about the opening of the thirteenth century , when the enslaved speech began to raise its diminished head and assert its native power , and then metrical romances were written in an English form . These first ...
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... lands . He joined a Mahometan army in Palestine . He saw some service under the Sultan of Egypt . He penetrated even as far as Cathay ( China ) , where , we are told , he lived for three years at Pekin . Turkey , Persia , Armenia ...
... lands . He joined a Mahometan army in Palestine . He saw some service under the Sultan of Egypt . He penetrated even as far as Cathay ( China ) , where , we are told , he lived for three years at Pekin . Turkey , Persia , Armenia ...
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... land . Though proceedings were taken against the disciples of Wycliffe - and all the more bitterly when that fiery adherent of the pope , Courtney , became Archbishop of Canterbury - yet their number constantly increased . Not one voice ...
... land . Though proceedings were taken against the disciples of Wycliffe - and all the more bitterly when that fiery adherent of the pope , Courtney , became Archbishop of Canterbury - yet their number constantly increased . Not one voice ...
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... land . No doubt he sought the aid of other pens , but to what extent we cannot now determine . The greater part of the work - perhaps the whole - was done during those quiet years at Lutterworth , between 1381 and his death . It is ...
... land . No doubt he sought the aid of other pens , but to what extent we cannot now determine . The greater part of the work - perhaps the whole - was done during those quiet years at Lutterworth , between 1381 and his death . It is ...
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