The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 Seiten |
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... give expression to fanciful and animated poetry . In other points they had accommodated themselves , with like readi- ness , to the habits and institutions of their French home ; they had changed nothing radically , but developed and ...
... give expression to fanciful and animated poetry . In other points they had accommodated themselves , with like readi- ness , to the habits and institutions of their French home ; they had changed nothing radically , but developed and ...
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... gives him a better title to fame , than the specimens which have been produced from his Latin prose and verse ; another was Asser , a Welsh monk of St. David's , the friend , and teacher , and affec- tionate biographer of the ...
... gives him a better title to fame , than the specimens which have been produced from his Latin prose and verse ; another was Asser , a Welsh monk of St. David's , the friend , and teacher , and affec- tionate biographer of the ...
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... give importance to such adventures , as that in which the dun cow " is said to have been destroyed by the famous knight Guy of Warwick . That the continental memorials just described were preserved by the minstrels of England , is ...
... give importance to such adventures , as that in which the dun cow " is said to have been destroyed by the famous knight Guy of Warwick . That the continental memorials just described were preserved by the minstrels of England , is ...
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... gives us several One is a vigorous song on Athelstan's victory over the Northmen , Britons , and Scots , at Brunanburgh ... give ex- pression to the images and feelings that possessed him , or even to find voice for chanting hymns or ...
... gives us several One is a vigorous song on Athelstan's victory over the Northmen , Britons , and Scots , at Brunanburgh ... give ex- pression to the images and feelings that possessed him , or even to find voice for chanting hymns or ...
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... gives also accounts , taken from the mouths of the ad- venturers , of a voyage to the Baltic , and another towards the North Pole ; and the finely thoughtful eloquence of the last of the philosophic Romans prompts to the Teutonic king ...
... gives also accounts , taken from the mouths of the ad- venturers , of a voyage to the Baltic , and another towards the North Pole ; and the finely thoughtful eloquence of the last of the philosophic Romans prompts to the Teutonic king ...
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