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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... thought , the vehicle of our feelings . Queen Elizabeth's statesmen and soldiers and sailors had given England a new place in the councils of Europe , the Elizabethan poets had lent a new glory to the Tudor court and capital , English ...
... thought , the vehicle of our feelings . Queen Elizabeth's statesmen and soldiers and sailors had given England a new place in the councils of Europe , the Elizabethan poets had lent a new glory to the Tudor court and capital , English ...
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... thought and felt , but in the west of Ireland and Scotland , in Wales , and in the Midland Counties of England we still meet short , dark- haired , long - skulled people who retain the characteristics of this steady and valiant race ...
... thought and felt , but in the west of Ireland and Scotland , in Wales , and in the Midland Counties of England we still meet short , dark- haired , long - skulled people who retain the characteristics of this steady and valiant race ...
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... thought , they did not use the English language . All that they wrote they wrote in Latin . The Celtic Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged this ; and the ...
... thought , they did not use the English language . All that they wrote they wrote in Latin . The Celtic Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged this ; and the ...
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... thought from certain similarities in diction , manner , and rhythm that this Old Saxon poem ( some lines of which , identical with corresponding lines in the West Saxon insertion , have been lately discovered ) was written by the writer ...
... thought from certain similarities in diction , manner , and rhythm that this Old Saxon poem ( some lines of which , identical with corresponding lines in the West Saxon insertion , have been lately discovered ) was written by the writer ...
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... thought , To that drink sche gan win And swete Ysonde it bi - taught ; Sche bad Tristrem bigin , To say . Her love might no man twin Til her ending - day . An hounde ther was biside That was y - cleped Hodain ; The coupe he licked that ...
... thought , To that drink sche gan win And swete Ysonde it bi - taught ; Sche bad Tristrem bigin , To say . Her love might no man twin Til her ending - day . An hounde ther was biside That was y - cleped Hodain ; The coupe he licked that ...
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