Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volumen1Nicol, 1803 - 424 páginas |
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... curiosity of the compiler was at length satiated , and if the labour of transcription became too irksome to be farther continued . It has been objected to the former collection that it consisted , almost exclusively , of love- songs and ...
... curiosity of the compiler was at length satiated , and if the labour of transcription became too irksome to be farther continued . It has been objected to the former collection that it consisted , almost exclusively , of love- songs and ...
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... the Norman con- quest . This is incontestably proved , not only by part of the Saxon Chronicle , which , as it relates the death of King Stephen , must have been written after that event , but by a much more curious composition [ 60 ]
... the Norman con- quest . This is incontestably proved , not only by part of the Saxon Chronicle , which , as it relates the death of King Stephen , must have been written after that event , but by a much more curious composition [ 60 ]
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... curious work never was , and pro- bably never will be printed , it appeared necessary to depart , in this instance , from the practice usually adopted in the present sketch , and to give the fol- lowing extract in the spelling of the ...
... curious work never was , and pro- bably never will be printed , it appeared necessary to depart , in this instance , from the practice usually adopted in the present sketch , and to give the fol- lowing extract in the spelling of the ...
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... curious epocha in our literary as well as political history , it is worth while to inquire how far it is capable of ... curiosity . But before the invention of printing , when books could only be multiplied by transcrip- tion , it must ...
... curious epocha in our literary as well as political history , it is worth while to inquire how far it is capable of ... curiosity . But before the invention of printing , when books could only be multiplied by transcrip- tion , it must ...
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... curious specimen preserved in Hickes's Thesaurus is one which that learned editor has characterised as a most malevo- lent satire on the religious orders . It , however , by no means deserves this disgraceful appellation , be- cause it ...
... curious specimen preserved in Hickes's Thesaurus is one which that learned editor has characterised as a most malevo- lent satire on the religious orders . It , however , by no means deserves this disgraceful appellation , be- cause it ...
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