A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 76–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... story had perished when the fathers of the tribe were gathered to their rest . In some nations the earliest records were knotted cords . Strings of different colours , with knots of various sizes and variously arranged , contained the ...
... story had perished when the fathers of the tribe were gathered to their rest . In some nations the earliest records were knotted cords . Strings of different colours , with knots of various sizes and variously arranged , contained the ...
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... story of the year . denoting calamity , is found in two of them . But the chief story is told by the coloured forms of the centre , where we have the sovereign painted twice , as a stern - looking head , capped with a serpent crest ...
... story of the year . denoting calamity , is found in two of them . But the chief story is told by the coloured forms of the centre , where we have the sovereign painted twice , as a stern - looking head , capped with a serpent crest ...
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... story of the ambassadors ; and , crossing two of these from the right , there comes a red arm to announce the introduction to the royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here No fewer than twenty - three figures of ...
... story of the ambassadors ; and , crossing two of these from the right , there comes a red arm to announce the introduction to the royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here No fewer than twenty - three figures of ...
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... story of their deeds to their children , was couched in rough metre , in order that the ring of the lines might help the memory to retain the tale . Oldest of all British literature , or , indeed , of all literature in modern Europe ...
... story of their deeds to their children , was couched in rough metre , in order that the ring of the lines might help the memory to retain the tale . Oldest of all British literature , or , indeed , of all literature in modern Europe ...
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... story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by Wright ...
... story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by Wright ...
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