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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... does the work profess to be a marrow of our literature , or to give the spirit and quintessence of the several authors ; still less does it aim to render its readers independent of the authors themselves or relieve vi Preface.
... does the work profess to be a marrow of our literature , or to give the spirit and quintessence of the several authors ; still less does it aim to render its readers independent of the authors themselves or relieve vi Preface.
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... less importance were now taken up ; but , urged thereto by Thane Æthelweard , he began to translate the Bible , part of which , from Genesis xxiv . to the end of Leviticus , Ethelweard had given to another hand . The beginning , then ...
... less importance were now taken up ; but , urged thereto by Thane Æthelweard , he began to translate the Bible , part of which , from Genesis xxiv . to the end of Leviticus , Ethelweard had given to another hand . The beginning , then ...
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... less them doubt , but it be through guile.1 The purely dynastic and predatory objects of the Hundred Years ' War with France did not foster this spirit , and it is not until after the Armada- -or perhaps , if we are to look carefully ...
... less them doubt , but it be through guile.1 The purely dynastic and predatory objects of the Hundred Years ' War with France did not foster this spirit , and it is not until after the Armada- -or perhaps , if we are to look carefully ...
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... less importance . But it is fair to note that , though as a rule he follows Wace closely , he is not a slavish trans- lator . We may take as a specimen of his style , where it needs little explanation , the lament of Lear when the ...
... less importance . But it is fair to note that , though as a rule he follows Wace closely , he is not a slavish trans- lator . We may take as a specimen of his style , where it needs little explanation , the lament of Lear when the ...
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... less simple and more conventional . It has come down to us in three manuscripts , and whereas in two of these Horn's father is called King Murry , in the third his name is Allof . The ' Saracens ' slay Allof ; and though they will not ...
... less simple and more conventional . It has come down to us in three manuscripts , and whereas in two of these Horn's father is called King Murry , in the third his name is Allof . The ' Saracens ' slay Allof ; and though they will not ...
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