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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... Beginnings till after the Norman Conquest . By Stopford A. Brooke . Middle English Literature to " The Arthurian Legend ... beginning " Several ballads , " etc. By Andrew Lang . The Civil War and the Commonwealth . By Samuel R. Gardiner ...
... Beginnings till after the Norman Conquest . By Stopford A. Brooke . Middle English Literature to " The Arthurian Legend ... beginning " Several ballads , " etc. By Andrew Lang . The Civil War and the Commonwealth . By Samuel R. Gardiner ...
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... beginnings of their their own national literature did nothing to hinder the full appreciation and loving study of ... beginning been treated as an integral and important part of the litera- ture of Greater Britain . We do not look on ...
... beginnings of their their own national literature did nothing to hinder the full appreciation and loving study of ... beginning been treated as an integral and important part of the litera- ture of Greater Britain . We do not look on ...
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... beginning of our literature . Sometimes it was but little , but it always inspired when it came . After King Alfred's days , and for a very long time , it ceased to do more than now and again to touch England ; but it began to act on us ...
... beginning of our literature . Sometimes it was but little , but it always inspired when it came . After King Alfred's days , and for a very long time , it ceased to do more than now and again to touch England ; but it began to act on us ...
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... beginning of the seventh century . These were Aneurin , Taliessin , Lly- warch Hen , and Merddin ; and we possess in manuscripts which date from the twelfth to the fourteenth century some of their poems , added to and modernised . They ...
... beginning of the seventh century . These were Aneurin , Taliessin , Lly- warch Hen , and Merddin ; and we possess in manuscripts which date from the twelfth to the fourteenth century some of their poems , added to and modernised . They ...
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... beginning of the eighth century . Their scenery is northern , their temper is northern ; and even the Ruined Burg , which mourns in solemn verse the vanished glory of a desolate city , and is probably a description of the ruins of Bath ...
... beginning of the eighth century . Their scenery is northern , their temper is northern ; and even the Ruined Burg , which mourns in solemn verse the vanished glory of a desolate city , and is probably a description of the ruins of Bath ...
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