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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... give a conspectus of our literature by a series of extracts from the more memorable authors set in a bio- graphical and critical history of the literature itself . Dr Chambers laid the plan in 1841 , and for realising it secured the ...
... give a conspectus of our literature by a series of extracts from the more memorable authors set in a bio- graphical and critical history of the literature itself . Dr Chambers laid the plan in 1841 , and for realising it secured the ...
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... gives them life and movement , is largely used in the story of Hagar , and almost suggests the drama . The sacrifice ... give him great pleasure . He describes Pharaoh's host on their march with vigour and fire ; and the marshalling of ...
... gives them life and movement , is largely used in the story of Hagar , and almost suggests the drama . The sacrifice ... give him great pleasure . He describes Pharaoh's host on their march with vigour and fire ; and the marshalling of ...
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... gives us a high idea of the value of the lost battle - songs of Old England . wong jager wine gehalgo the gear hit ... give below a line - for - line transcription , printing th both for O and for p , with the translation . 1 to cinge ...
... gives us a high idea of the value of the lost battle - songs of Old England . wong jager wine gehalgo the gear hit ... give below a line - for - line transcription , printing th both for O and for p , with the translation . 1 to cinge ...
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... give the famous entry on the battle of Brunanburh in alliterative verse , written straight on , like the specimens above from Beo- wulf and Cædmon , without regard to the division into alliterating lines . O thou , Eve the good , how ...
... give the famous entry on the battle of Brunanburh in alliterative verse , written straight on , like the specimens above from Beo- wulf and Cædmon , without regard to the division into alliterating lines . O thou , Eve the good , how ...
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... gives for it his neck ; wombe , belly ; festen , fast ; pyne , punishment ; not , knows not . But the opening passage ... give 2 Ere this he my birthright took . To about the same date belongs a Northumbrian . translation of the Psalter ...
... gives for it his neck ; wombe , belly ; festen , fast ; pyne , punishment ; not , knows not . But the opening passage ... give 2 Ere this he my birthright took . To about the same date belongs a Northumbrian . translation of the Psalter ...
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