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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... born within our four seas , but in farther Britain or the remoter dependencies . Thus Thackeray was born in Calcutta , and Preface ix.
... born within our four seas , but in farther Britain or the remoter dependencies . Thus Thackeray was born in Calcutta , and Preface ix.
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... born a heathen if he was English ; but if , as some think from his name , he was a Celt , he was born a Christian . The monastery in which he afterwards became a monk was founded on the Celtic pattern - one of the children of Iona - and ...
... born a heathen if he was English ; but if , as some think from his name , he was a Celt , he was born a Christian . The monastery in which he afterwards became a monk was founded on the Celtic pattern - one of the children of Iona - and ...
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... Born at Wantage in 849 , he was the youngest son of Ethelwulf , and the grandson of the great Ecgberht . Rome , whither he went at the age of four years , and then again when he was six years old , made its deep impression on him . He ...
... Born at Wantage in 849 , he was the youngest son of Ethelwulf , and the grandson of the great Ecgberht . Rome , whither he went at the age of four years , and then again when he was six years old , made its deep impression on him . He ...
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... born about 955 , and educated at Winchester . Ælfhead , Ethelwold's successor , sent him in 987 to teach and govern the new monastery of Cerne Abbas in Dorset- shire , and here he first followed King Alfred's plan , and translated Latin ...
... born about 955 , and educated at Winchester . Ælfhead , Ethelwold's successor , sent him in 987 to teach and govern the new monastery of Cerne Abbas in Dorset- shire , and here he first followed King Alfred's plan , and translated Latin ...
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... born ideas began a fresh epoch in the sixteenth century . The blood which ran in the veins of the singers was , in the main , English , and to this we owe that continuity- perhaps , rather , that continual recurrence - of the Old ...
... born ideas began a fresh epoch in the sixteenth century . The blood which ran in the veins of the singers was , in the main , English , and to this we owe that continuity- perhaps , rather , that continual recurrence - of the Old ...
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