A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 էջ |
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... genius and turned the lumps of dull lead into jewels of the finest gold . NORMAN - FRENCH WRITERS . When the chase was over , and the Norman lords caroused in their English halls around the oak board , flinging scraps of the feast to ...
... genius and turned the lumps of dull lead into jewels of the finest gold . NORMAN - FRENCH WRITERS . When the chase was over , and the Norman lords caroused in their English halls around the oak board , flinging scraps of the feast to ...
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... genius , something of the pliant muscle that bears Blondin along the perilous rope , and the rapid finger with which Ernst draws the music of the spheres from tightened cat - gut . An Act of 1597 , by which Elizabeth included wandering ...
... genius , something of the pliant muscle that bears Blondin along the perilous rope , and the rapid finger with which Ernst draws the music of the spheres from tightened cat - gut . An Act of 1597 , by which Elizabeth included wandering ...
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... Genius , who is a priest of Venus . The priest , before he will grant absolution , probes the heart of his penitent to the core , trying all its weak spots . He plies him with moral tales in illustration of his teaching , giving him ...
... Genius , who is a priest of Venus . The priest , before he will grant absolution , probes the heart of his penitent to the core , trying all its weak spots . He plies him with moral tales in illustration of his teaching , giving him ...
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... genius , his noble courage , and his gentle heart . The wit that sparkled from Cardinal Morton's rosy page , that in bachelor days lit the gloomy chambers in Lincoln's Inn , and added new lustre to the hospitalities of Chelsea , shone ...
... genius , his noble courage , and his gentle heart . The wit that sparkled from Cardinal Morton's rosy page , that in bachelor days lit the gloomy chambers in Lincoln's Inn , and added new lustre to the hospitalities of Chelsea , shone ...
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... genius was to shine out in fuller lustre . His fame , as often happens , had its root in a deep sorrow . A lady , whom he calls Rosalind , made a plaything of his heart , and , when tired of her sport , cast it from her . She little ...
... genius was to shine out in fuller lustre . His fame , as often happens , had its root in a deep sorrow . A lady , whom he calls Rosalind , made a plaything of his heart , and , when tired of her sport , cast it from her . She little ...
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