Chamber's Cyclopędia 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 1 |
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The Kingis Quair and James 1. — The length , in 1424 , on the pledge of a ransom of lustre that surrounded the name of James I. of £ 40,000 , to be paid in six instalments , the Scots Scotland has of recent years been somewhat shorn ...
The Kingis Quair and James 1. — The length , in 1424 , on the pledge of a ransom of lustre that surrounded the name of James I. of £ 40,000 , to be paid in six instalments , the Scots Scotland has of recent years been somewhat shorn ...
Page 184
The case against James may be briefly us in its most highly - wrought passages ; but the stated : the copyist of the only ... It is this impression we receive and he may also err in the case of James ; the from the poem of a nature ...
The case against James may be briefly us in its most highly - wrought passages ; but the stated : the copyist of the only ... It is this impression we receive and he may also err in the case of James ; the from the poem of a nature ...
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While in England he wrote in the vernacular Scots a History of Scotland from the death of James I. ( where Boece left off ) to his own time , which he finished during his confinement ' in the Bishope of London's house in the Cite of ...
While in England he wrote in the vernacular Scots a History of Scotland from the death of James I. ( where Boece left off ) to his own time , which he finished during his confinement ' in the Bishope of London's house in the Cite of ...
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| Title | Chamber's Cyclopędia 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 1 Chamber's Cyclopędia 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, John Liddell Geddie |
| Author | Robert Chambers |
| Editor | David Patrick |
| Published | 1922 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2010 |
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