A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and sons, 1880 |
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... paper , sewed or glued together , which we call by that common name , find their earliest types in those green tablets we have spoken of , pulled fresh and sappy from the forest bough , and marked with the point of a little thorn ...
... paper , sewed or glued together , which we call by that common name , find their earliest types in those green tablets we have spoken of , pulled fresh and sappy from the forest bough , and marked with the point of a little thorn ...
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... paper has been made to equal them in lasting power . Parch- ment takes its name from the old city of Pergamos in Asia Minor , whose king , when the literary jealousy of the Egyptians stopped the supply of papyrus , caused his subjects ...
... paper has been made to equal them in lasting power . Parch- ment takes its name from the old city of Pergamos in Asia Minor , whose king , when the literary jealousy of the Egyptians stopped the supply of papyrus , caused his subjects ...
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... paper . It was then ready to receive the semi - liquid , gummy soot , with which the Xenophons and the Virgils of old Greece and Rome traced their flowing histories or sparkling poems . Such were the chief materials of which ancient ...
... paper . It was then ready to receive the semi - liquid , gummy soot , with which the Xenophons and the Virgils of old Greece and Rome traced their flowing histories or sparkling poems . Such were the chief materials of which ancient ...
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... English and doubtful of his French ; and so the unfinished translation lay aside for two years , tossed among his old invoices and scattered papers . One day " my Lady 74 THE ALMONRY OF WESTMINSTER . Margaret , " talking.
... English and doubtful of his French ; and so the unfinished translation lay aside for two years , tossed among his old invoices and scattered papers . One day " my Lady 74 THE ALMONRY OF WESTMINSTER . Margaret , " talking.
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... paper in boards - veritable boards - thick pieces of wood like the panel of a door , covered outside with embossed and gilded leather , and thickly studded with brass nails , whose ornamental heads shone in manifold rows . Thick brass ...
... paper in boards - veritable boards - thick pieces of wood like the panel of a door , covered outside with embossed and gilded leather , and thickly studded with brass nails , whose ornamental heads shone in manifold rows . Thick brass ...
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A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1869 |
A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1877 |
A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1868 |
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