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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... better of the king and the scholar . But there is no trace of this rebellion against Church and State in the English dialogues . With them we may close the poetry of the ninth century . A few years after the death of Cynewulf the Danish ...
... better of the king and the scholar . But there is no trace of this rebellion against Church and State in the English dialogues . With them we may close the poetry of the ninth century . A few years after the death of Cynewulf the Danish ...
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... better than I have done towards Thee . And guide me to Thy will to the need of my soul better than I can myself . And stedfast my mind towards Thy will and to my soul's need . And strengthen me against the temptations of the devil , and ...
... better than I have done towards Thee . And guide me to Thy will to the need of my soul better than I can myself . And stedfast my mind towards Thy will and to my soul's need . And strengthen me against the temptations of the devil , and ...
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... better work could be done for literature than this re - creation of the monasteries . Art , the science of medicine , the study of the Scriptures , of philosophy , of astro- nomy , and of literature , revived with their revival . The ...
... better work could be done for literature than this re - creation of the monasteries . Art , the science of medicine , the study of the Scriptures , of philosophy , of astro- nomy , and of literature , revived with their revival . The ...
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... better place , must be mentioned here . His poems on the wars of Edward III . have but small literary merit , and his patriotism , which is supposed to eke this out , is rather loyalty to the king's person than true national feeling ...
... better place , must be mentioned here . His poems on the wars of Edward III . have but small literary merit , and his patriotism , which is supposed to eke this out , is rather loyalty to the king's person than true national feeling ...
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... better - spelt B text . ] So Langland began , with music enough to have charmed a fashionable audience , but there was little else in his ' swevene , ' or dream , for which fashionable people can have cared . What he saw was a ...
... better - spelt B text . ] So Langland began , with music enough to have charmed a fashionable audience , but there was little else in his ' swevene , ' or dream , for which fashionable people can have cared . What he saw was a ...
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