A First Sketch of English LiteratureCassell, 1892 - 1104 páginas |
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... verses of which this is the sense : - " Now we ought to praise the Author of the Heavenly Kingdom , the power of the ... verse . He returned next day with the work so well done that his teachers became in turn his hearers . Hilda then ...
... verses of which this is the sense : - " Now we ought to praise the Author of the Heavenly Kingdom , the power of the ... verse . He returned next day with the work so well done that his teachers became in turn his hearers . Hilda then ...
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... verse , chiefly in praise of chastity , survive , but those English songs of his which were still on the lips of the people in King Alfred's day are lost to us . William of Malmesbury has re- corded , on King Alfred's authority , that ...
... verse , chiefly in praise of chastity , survive , but those English songs of his which were still on the lips of the people in King Alfred's day are lost to us . William of Malmesbury has re- corded , on King Alfred's authority , that ...
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... verse ,. by adding the series of Saxon kings ; and this latter part of his work was all that survived when Wace's more popular version of the famous history into French verse for the use of the court , caused that of Gaimar to be ...
... verse ,. by adding the series of Saxon kings ; and this latter part of his work was all that survived when Wace's more popular version of the famous history into French verse for the use of the court , caused that of Gaimar to be ...
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... verse purporting to be poems of a certain Bishop Golias , a gluttonous dignitary , glorying in self- indulgence , his name probably derived from gula , the gullet . The verses were audacious , lively , and so true to the assumed ...
... verse purporting to be poems of a certain Bishop Golias , a gluttonous dignitary , glorying in self- indulgence , his name probably derived from gula , the gullet . The verses were audacious , lively , and so true to the assumed ...
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... verse . The more important part of his life will have to be told in association with the other evidences of the course of English thought in the reign of Henry III . 28. One other feature of our literature in the reign of John remains ...
... verse . The more important part of his life will have to be told in association with the other evidences of the course of English thought in the reign of Henry III . 28. One other feature of our literature in the reign of John remains ...
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