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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Page 12
... seems to have been in twelve books , for our manuscript contains a few lines of Section ix . , and the whole of Sections x . , xi . , and xii . Section x . begins with the feast of Holofernes and the leading of Judith to his tent . He ...
... seems to have been in twelve books , for our manuscript contains a few lines of Section ix . , and the whole of Sections x . , xi . , and xii . Section x . begins with the feast of Holofernes and the leading of Judith to his tent . He ...
Page 33
... seems to have been a very aristocratic monk , is clearly speaking all the time of well - to - do people , ignoring the great bulk of the population beneath them . But even if we stretch a point and make his ' rurales homines ' and ...
... seems to have been a very aristocratic monk , is clearly speaking all the time of well - to - do people , ignoring the great bulk of the population beneath them . But even if we stretch a point and make his ' rurales homines ' and ...
Page 46
... seems to us enormous length . These Corpus Christi and Whitsuntide representations were thus restricted to no single subject , such as the Nativity or the Resurrection , but embraced ' matter from the beginning of the world ' to the Day ...
... seems to us enormous length . These Corpus Christi and Whitsuntide representations were thus restricted to no single subject , such as the Nativity or the Resurrection , but embraced ' matter from the beginning of the world ' to the Day ...
Page 53
... seems , indeed ; lo , it is small to look upon and less in cost , but whoso knew the virtue that is knit therein he would , peradventure , value it more highly . For whatever knight is girded with this green lace , while he bears it ...
... seems , indeed ; lo , it is small to look upon and less in cost , but whoso knew the virtue that is knit therein he would , peradventure , value it more highly . For whatever knight is girded with this green lace , while he bears it ...
Page 56
... seems to have cut short his career , and he describes himself as living in London , and on London , earning money by sing- ing requiems for hire . ' Reason , ' one of the char- acters in the poem , has been asking him what he does for a ...
... seems to have cut short his career , and he describes himself as living in London , and on London , earning money by sing- ing requiems for hire . ' Reason , ' one of the char- acters in the poem , has been asking him what he does for a ...
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