Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 1Gould and Lincoln, 1856 |
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... WRITERS , 1 · INTRODUCTION OF NORMAN FRENCH , THE NORMAN POETS OF ENGLAND , COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT FORM OF English , SPECIMENS OF ANGLO - SAXON AND ENGLISH PREVIOUS TO 1300 , Extract from the Saxon Chronicle , 1154 , 3 4 KING JAMES ...
... WRITERS , 1 · INTRODUCTION OF NORMAN FRENCH , THE NORMAN POETS OF ENGLAND , COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT FORM OF English , SPECIMENS OF ANGLO - SAXON AND ENGLISH PREVIOUS TO 1300 , Extract from the Saxon Chronicle , 1154 , 3 4 KING JAMES ...
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... WRITERS . Milton's Literary Musings , Education , · Liberty of the Press , The Reformation , Truth , • Expiration of the Roman Power in Britain , ABRAHAM COWLEY , Of Myself , Poetry and Poets , Virtue and Vice Declared by the General ...
... WRITERS . Milton's Literary Musings , Education , · Liberty of the Press , The Reformation , Truth , • Expiration of the Roman Power in Britain , ABRAHAM COWLEY , Of Myself , Poetry and Poets , Virtue and Vice Declared by the General ...
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... WRITERS . age presents us with historical chronicles , theologi- cal treatises , religious , political , and narrative poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is The earliest ...
... WRITERS . age presents us with historical chronicles , theologi- cal treatises , religious , political , and narrative poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is The earliest ...
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... writers to BEDE , usually called the Venerable Bede , who may be allowed to stand at the head of the class . He seems to have spent a modest studious life , unche- quered by incident of any kind , at the monastery of Wearmouth , where ...
... writers to BEDE , usually called the Venerable Bede , who may be allowed to stand at the head of the class . He seems to have spent a modest studious life , unche- quered by incident of any kind , at the monastery of Wearmouth , where ...
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... writers of romantic narrative for the ensuing two centuries ; nor even in a later age was its influence exhausted ; for from it Shakspeare drew the story of Lear , and Sackville that of Ferrex and Porrex , while Drayton reproduces much ...
... writers of romantic narrative for the ensuing two centuries ; nor even in a later age was its influence exhausted ; for from it Shakspeare drew the story of Lear , and Sackville that of Ferrex and Porrex , while Drayton reproduces much ...
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