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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... tell its story . I was hewed down in the holt , and wrought into shape , and set on a hill , and the Lord of all folk hastened to mount on me , the Hero who would save the world . Nails pierced me ; I was drenched with the Hero's blood ...
... tell its story . I was hewed down in the holt , and wrought into shape , and set on a hill , and the Lord of all folk hastened to mount on me , the Hero who would save the world . Nails pierced me ; I was drenched with the Hero's blood ...
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... tell of war , of courts , of women , of games , of domestic life . They would have interested Ælfred ; and it is probable that , collected at York , they were edited in Wessex in Elfred's time . The Rune Song is an alphabet of the Runes ...
... tell of war , of courts , of women , of games , of domestic life . They would have interested Ælfred ; and it is probable that , collected at York , they were edited in Wessex in Elfred's time . The Rune Song is an alphabet of the Runes ...
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... tell what English prose might have become had this modern style been developed . But the Danish invasion checked and the Norman Conquest para- lysed it for a long time . Elfric's English prose had , however , one great fault . It became ...
... tell what English prose might have become had this modern style been developed . But the Danish invasion checked and the Norman Conquest para- lysed it for a long time . Elfric's English prose had , however , one great fault . It became ...
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... tell us , however , that what was new in his book was gathered from local Welsh tradition , but that he learnt it from a certain very ancient book in the British language which Walter , Archdeacon of Oxford , brought out of Brittany and ...
... tell us , however , that what was new in his book was gathered from local Welsh tradition , but that he learnt it from a certain very ancient book in the British language which Walter , Archdeacon of Oxford , brought out of Brittany and ...
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... tell him the cause of his grief . Perhaps a little before , perhaps a little after , the Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse , Chaucer translated from the French of Guillaume de Deguilleville a hymn to the Blessed Virgin , in which the ...
... tell him the cause of his grief . Perhaps a little before , perhaps a little after , the Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse , Chaucer translated from the French of Guillaume de Deguilleville a hymn to the Blessed Virgin , in which the ...
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