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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... century , and , as regards literature , in a new world . In the new edition , of which the first volume now appears , the essential plan has been retained . The aim has been to carry that plan out even more perfectly , and to make the ...
... century , and , as regards literature , in a new world . In the new edition , of which the first volume now appears , the essential plan has been retained . The aim has been to carry that plan out even more perfectly , and to make the ...
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... century , and at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth the Gaelic spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh and eighth centuries . It entered northern England from Iona , where ...
... century , and at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth the Gaelic spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh and eighth centuries . It entered northern England from Iona , where ...
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... 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 sing the wars of the ...
... 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 sing the wars of the ...
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... century to England , and linked a converted people to the long tradi- tions , literature , law , and glory of pagan and Christian Rome . But almost all the traces of this early occupation of Britain by the Romans were swept away by the ...
... century to England , and linked a converted people to the long tradi- tions , literature , law , and glory of pagan and Christian Rome . But almost all the traces of this early occupation of Britain by the Romans were swept away by the ...
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... century were foisted in by later editors of the poem . The real interest of the verses is not in these ques- tionable matters , but in the proud and pleasant account Widsith gives of himself as a wander- ing minstrel , and of the honour ...
... century were foisted in by later editors of the poem . The real interest of the verses is not in these ques- tionable matters , but in the proud and pleasant account Widsith gives of himself as a wander- ing minstrel , and of the honour ...
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