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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... probably will , modify permanently our future character . Every new thought which our reading prompts , every emotion or desire which that thought awakens , may be a link , never to be unfastened , in the chain of mental phenomena which ...
... probably will , modify permanently our future character . Every new thought which our reading prompts , every emotion or desire which that thought awakens , may be a link , never to be unfastened , in the chain of mental phenomena which ...
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... called the Psalter of Cashel , still surviving , and probably in its genuine shape . Competent critics have admitted the great historical value of the Prose Chronicles , preserved to this day , which grew 30 THE ANGLO - SAXON TIMES .
... called the Psalter of Cashel , still surviving , and probably in its genuine shape . Competent critics have admitted the great historical value of the Prose Chronicles , preserved to this day , which grew 30 THE ANGLO - SAXON TIMES .
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... probably the originals of that long train of dragon - killers , which ( to say nothing of the classical Hercules ) begins with our Anglo - Saxon poem , and attends us through the series of the chivalrous romances . The slaying of wild ...
... probably the originals of that long train of dragon - killers , which ( to say nothing of the classical Hercules ) begins with our Anglo - Saxon poem , and attends us through the series of the chivalrous romances . The slaying of wild ...
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... probably neither in perfect purity , nor at all complete , are inspired by a noble tone of solemn imagination . Their bulk in all is nearly equal to half of the Paradise Lost ; to which some parts of them bear , not only in story but in ...
... probably neither in perfect purity , nor at all complete , are inspired by a noble tone of solemn imagination . Their bulk in all is nearly equal to half of the Paradise Lost ; to which some parts of them bear , not only in story but in ...
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... probably a curious Manual of Astron- omy . He is , however , the only man named , as having , after the time of Alfred , been eminent in the cultivation of the vernacular tongue . A good many anonymous works interest us chiefly as ...
... probably a curious Manual of Astron- omy . He is , however , the only man named , as having , after the time of Alfred , been eminent in the cultivation of the vernacular tongue . A good many anonymous works interest us chiefly as ...
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