The North American Review, Volume 70Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1850 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... centuries . If the English have done so little in this way for their own literature , it can hardly be expected that they should do much for that of their neighbors . If they had extended their researches to the Continent , it might pro ...
... centuries . If the English have done so little in this way for their own literature , it can hardly be expected that they should do much for that of their neighbors . If they had extended their researches to the Continent , it might pro ...
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... century , the reign of Charles the Fifth , —a period of nearly four centuries . - At the very outset , we are met by Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature . [ Jan.
... century , the reign of Charles the Fifth , —a period of nearly four centuries . - At the very outset , we are met by Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature . [ Jan.
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... century ear- lier than the poem of Dante ; a century and a half before Petrarch and Chaucer . The subject of it , as its name im- ports , is , the achievements of the renowned Ruy Diaz de Bivar - the Cid , the Campeador , " the lord ...
... century ear- lier than the poem of Dante ; a century and a half before Petrarch and Chaucer . The subject of it , as its name im- ports , is , the achievements of the renowned Ruy Diaz de Bivar - the Cid , the Campeador , " the lord ...
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... century . Alfonso himself did , probably , more than any other to settle it , by his prose compositions , by the Siete Partidas and his Chronicle , as well as by the vernacular version of the Scriptures . The Gallician became the basis ...
... century . Alfonso himself did , probably , more than any other to settle it , by his prose compositions , by the Siete Partidas and his Chronicle , as well as by the vernacular version of the Scriptures . The Gallician became the basis ...
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... centuries , came the great Sar- acen inundation , which covered the whole land up to the northern mountains , and , as ... century that the great battle was fought , on the banks of the Guadalete , which decided the fate of Roderic , the ...
... centuries , came the great Sar- acen inundation , which covered the whole land up to the northern mountains , and , as ... century that the great battle was fought , on the banks of the Guadalete , which decided the fate of Roderic , the ...
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