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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1 a 1 1 6 the seventh and the beginning of the eighth cen- The account of the Creation tells of the Hollow tury . Some of these poems are in the Exeter Chasm , black in everlasting night - the vast Book . They are short hymnic songs of ...
1 a 1 1 6 the seventh and the beginning of the eighth cen- The account of the Creation tells of the Hollow tury . Some of these poems are in the Exeter Chasm , black in everlasting night - the vast Book . They are short hymnic songs of ...
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About 1380 also we have the beginning of a new influence in English poetry , for it was then that Chaucer turned from his French and Latin sources and enriched our ...
About 1380 also we have the beginning of a new influence in English poetry , for it was then that Chaucer turned from his French and Latin sources and enriched our ...
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Now if the series of the three minor cicles be from this present year extended backward unto precedent times , the 4713 years before the beginning of our Christian account will be found to be that year into which the first year of the ...
Now if the series of the three minor cicles be from this present year extended backward unto precedent times , the 4713 years before the beginning of our Christian account will be found to be that year into which the first year of the ...
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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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