Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 1Robert Chambers J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1856 - Authors, English |
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... words : " This narrow place is most unlike that other that we formerly knew , high in heaven's kingdom , which my ... words in the line be- ginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the first word on which ...
... words : " This narrow place is most unlike that other that we formerly knew , high in heaven's kingdom , which my ... words in the line be- ginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the first word on which ...
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... words , in order that he might be understood by unlettered people . As he was really successful in writing simply ... words were softened down until they were entirely lost . Dr Johnson expresses his opinion , that the Normans affected ...
... words , in order that he might be understood by unlettered people . As he was really successful in writing simply ... words were softened down until they were entirely lost . Dr Johnson expresses his opinion , that the Normans affected ...
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... words , but its grammatical structure is considerably It altered . There is a metrical Saxon or English trans- lation , by one LAYAMON , a priest of Ernely , on the Severn , from the Brut d'Angleterre of Wace . Its date is not ...
... words , but its grammatical structure is considerably It altered . There is a metrical Saxon or English trans- lation , by one LAYAMON , a priest of Ernely , on the Severn , from the Brut d'Angleterre of Wace . Its date is not ...
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... words and now soft , That made them to disputen oft ; And each his reason had , And thus with tales he them led ... word was not so soon spoke , That his one ee anon was loke : And his fellow forthwith also Was blind on both his eyes two ...
... words and now soft , That made them to disputen oft ; And each his reason had , And thus with tales he them led ... word was not so soon spoke , That his one ee anon was loke : And his fellow forthwith also Was blind on both his eyes two ...
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... words of Mr Warton , " there is great soft- ness and facility " in the following passage of Lyd- gate's Destruction of Troy : - [ Description of a Sylvan Retreat . ] Till at the last , among the bowes glade , Of adventure , I caught a ...
... words of Mr Warton , " there is great soft- ness and facility " in the following passage of Lyd- gate's Destruction of Troy : - [ Description of a Sylvan Retreat . ] Till at the last , among the bowes glade , Of adventure , I caught a ...
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