Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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... Church and State in the English dialogues . With them we may close the poetry of the ninth century . A few years ... Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged ...
... Church and State in the English dialogues . With them we may close the poetry of the ninth century . A few years ... Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged ...
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... Church ; Northumbria must be drawn into the Latin fold ; and Theodore , Wilfrid , and others , with Prince Alchfrith , fought their battle so well that in 664 , at the Synod of Whitby , Northumbria joined the Latin Church . And now ...
... Church ; Northumbria must be drawn into the Latin fold ; and Theodore , Wilfrid , and others , with Prince Alchfrith , fought their battle so well that in 664 , at the Synod of Whitby , Northumbria joined the Latin Church . And now ...
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... Church , but also the people in the history of their own land . It omits several chapters of the original , and the king adds nothing of his own . We may wonder why he gave no particular account in it of the history of Church and State ...
... Church , but also the people in the history of their own land . It omits several chapters of the original , and the king adds nothing of his own . We may wonder why he gave no particular account in it of the history of Church and State ...
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... Church were all in Latin accounts for the last point we have to notice the beginning , that is , of the drama in England in the form of Latin miracle - plays , which were acted in church on various high festivals as part of the service ...
... Church were all in Latin accounts for the last point we have to notice the beginning , that is , of the drama in England in the form of Latin miracle - plays , which were acted in church on various high festivals as part of the service ...
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... church to teach the unlearned . But in the same passage Mannyng mentions , though only to reprobate , the acting of plays ' in weyes or grenes , ' and this removal from the church and its precincts speedily altered their character . In ...
... church to teach the unlearned . But in the same passage Mannyng mentions , though only to reprobate , the acting of plays ' in weyes or grenes , ' and this removal from the church and its precincts speedily altered their character . In ...
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