A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 էջ |
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... received from the native literature of our Saxon forefathers . A romance founded on the story of Apollonius of Tyre , -King Alfred's Will , some Laws and Charters , -some Homilies , and a few works on Grammar , Medicine , and Botany ...
... received from the native literature of our Saxon forefathers . A romance founded on the story of Apollonius of Tyre , -King Alfred's Will , some Laws and Charters , -some Homilies , and a few works on Grammar , Medicine , and Botany ...
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... received a pension of 20 marks ; which , as each silver mark weighed eight ounces and was worth £ 10 of our money , was equivalent to £ 200 a year . Five years later , he was sent with two others to Genoa , on an important commercial ...
... received a pension of 20 marks ; which , as each silver mark weighed eight ounces and was worth £ 10 of our money , was equivalent to £ 200 a year . Five years later , he was sent with two others to Genoa , on an important commercial ...
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... receiving , in lieu of the pensions he had been forced to sell , a pension of £ 20 and an annual pipe of wine . Wearied with public life , he retired about 1391 to his house at Woodstock , where he sat down in sober age and country ...
... receiving , in lieu of the pensions he had been forced to sell , a pension of £ 20 and an annual pipe of wine . Wearied with public life , he retired about 1391 to his house at Woodstock , where he sat down in sober age and country ...
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... receiving an education befitting his royal birth . He seems to have excelled in every study and every sport ; but the music of the harp and the making of verses were his chief delights . Chaucer's poetry and Gower's were studied eagerly ...
... receiving an education befitting his royal birth . He seems to have excelled in every study and every sport ; but the music of the harp and the making of verses were his chief delights . Chaucer's poetry and Gower's were studied eagerly ...
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... receiving a passport from Edward III . that he might visit Oxford for purposes of study . Three other passports were also granted to him by the English king at various times . Barbour's great poem is The Bruce , an epic , written pro ...
... receiving a passport from Edward III . that he might visit Oxford for purposes of study . Three other passports were also granted to him by the English king at various times . Barbour's great poem is The Bruce , an epic , written pro ...
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