A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 էջ |
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... noted in those dim days . Besides those who wrote and sang in their native Celtic tongue , there were also among the ancient British people a few Latin authors . Three may be named . First on the long and brilliant roll of British ...
... noted in those dim days . Besides those who wrote and sang in their native Celtic tongue , there were also among the ancient British people a few Latin authors . Three may be named . First on the long and brilliant roll of British ...
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... noted in the family circle for the ease with which he remembered the songs sung by the wandering gleemen . When in 871 he ascended the throne of Wessex , his great mind found its destined work . Through many perils and dis- heartening ...
... noted in the family circle for the ease with which he remembered the songs sung by the wandering gleemen . When in 871 he ascended the throne of Wessex , his great mind found its destined work . Through many perils and dis- heartening ...
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... noted for his learning than for his writings , was Dunstan , Abbot of Glastonbury , and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury . Born in 925 , near Glastonbury in Somersetshire , and educated there in the Irish school , he became a monk at ...
... noted for his learning than for his writings , was Dunstan , Abbot of Glastonbury , and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury . Born in 925 , near Glastonbury in Somersetshire , and educated there in the Irish school , he became a monk at ...
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... noted for having preserved the fine antique legends of the Celtic race in his History of the Britons , which he professed to have translated from an old Welsh chronicle . Here we find the story of Arthur and his Knights of the Round ...
... noted for having preserved the fine antique legends of the Celtic race in his History of the Britons , which he professed to have translated from an old Welsh chronicle . Here we find the story of Arthur and his Knights of the Round ...
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... noted scholars of the day , used to say that there was but one wit in England , and that was young Thomas More . Devoted to the law by his good father , who was a justice in the King's Bench , More went to Oxford at seventeen ; and here ...
... noted scholars of the day , used to say that there was but one wit in England , and that was young Thomas More . Devoted to the law by his good father , who was a justice in the King's Bench , More went to Oxford at seventeen ; and here ...
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