A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 էջ |
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... soon came when the descendants of the men who had raised these memorials wondered what the decaying trees , and the grey , moss- covered heaps of stones could mean - for the story had perished when the fathers of the tribe were gathered ...
... soon came when the descendants of the men who had raised these memorials wondered what the decaying trees , and the grey , moss- covered heaps of stones could mean - for the story had perished when the fathers of the tribe were gathered ...
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... soon won a reputation for wonderful sanctity and alliance with supernatural beings . King Edmund made him Abbot of Glastonbury ; and with Edred also - the next king - he was in high favour . Banished by Edwy to Ghent , he was by Edgar ...
... soon won a reputation for wonderful sanctity and alliance with supernatural beings . King Edmund made him Abbot of Glastonbury ; and with Edred also - the next king - he was in high favour . Banished by Edwy to Ghent , he was by Edgar ...
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... soon took up this foreign strain , and wrote lays in Norman - French . The deeds of Alexander , Charlemagne , Havelok the Dane , Guy of Warwick , Coeur de Lion , and other such heroes , were celebrated in these romances . In the earlier ...
... soon took up this foreign strain , and wrote lays in Norman - French . The deeds of Alexander , Charlemagne , Havelok the Dane , Guy of Warwick , Coeur de Lion , and other such heroes , were celebrated in these romances . In the earlier ...
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... soon removed to Merton . The students of Oxford in that day were , as we learn from Chaucer's pictured page , as strongly marked out into reading men and fast men as they are in our own century . Among the motley company that rode out ...
... soon removed to Merton . The students of Oxford in that day were , as we learn from Chaucer's pictured page , as strongly marked out into reading men and fast men as they are in our own century . Among the motley company that rode out ...
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... soon saw the incalculable value of an English Bible in the work of the English Reformation , and set himself to the noble task of giving a boon so precious to his native land . No doubt he sought the aid of other pens , but to what ...
... soon saw the incalculable value of an English Bible in the work of the English Reformation , and set himself to the noble task of giving a boon so precious to his native land . No doubt he sought the aid of other pens , but to what ...
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