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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... probably an exaggerated indictment of their rule and their immoralities . Never- theless , so far as his slight history goes , he is a sound authority . When , weary of trouble , he fled to Gaul , founded the Abbaye de Ruis , and died ...
... probably an exaggerated indictment of their rule and their immoralities . Never- theless , so far as his slight history goes , he is a sound authority . When , weary of trouble , he fled to Gaul , founded the Abbaye de Ruis , and died ...
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... probably composed into its present form in the eighth century in England , we do not know by whom ; and received , either then or afterwards when it was put into the West Saxon dialect , the addition , but in moderation , of certain ...
... probably composed into its present form in the eighth century in England , we do not know by whom ; and received , either then or afterwards when it was put into the West Saxon dialect , the addition , but in moderation , of certain ...
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... probably the story Then the good ( warrior ) , Beowulf the Geat , Spake boasting words ere he went to his bed ; ' Not myself do I reckon , in mightiness of warfare , in deeds of the war , any worse than Grendel . So him , with the sword ...
... probably the story Then the good ( warrior ) , Beowulf the Geat , Spake boasting words ere he went to his bed ; ' Not myself do I reckon , in mightiness of warfare , in deeds of the war , any worse than Grendel . So him , with the sword ...
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... probably a description of the ruins of Bath may have been written by a Mercian poet educated in the Northumbrian schools . Their most remark- able quality , independent of their heathen dwelling on Fate rather than on the will of God ...
... probably a description of the ruins of Bath may have been written by a Mercian poet educated in the Northumbrian schools . Their most remark- able quality , independent of their heathen dwelling on Fate rather than on the will of God ...
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... probably of the same cycle as the Exodus - a poem of the middle of the eighth century . Like the Exodus , the poem is conceived as a Saga , to be sung before the warriors in camp as well as the monks in the refectory . It seems to have ...
... probably of the same cycle as the Exodus - a poem of the middle of the eighth century . Like the Exodus , the poem is conceived as a Saga , to be sung before the warriors in camp as well as the monks in the refectory . It seems to have ...
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