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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9 Branxton Moor was the name by which the English called their victory . 4 Stubborn . 5 Quayre or quair , a book , especially of poetry . 6 A summoner - Chaucer's sompnourwas a kind of apparitor , a humble legal officer , ecclesiastical ...
9 Branxton Moor was the name by which the English called their victory . 4 Stubborn . 5 Quayre or quair , a book , especially of poetry . 6 A summoner - Chaucer's sompnourwas a kind of apparitor , a humble legal officer , ecclesiastical ...
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Then came the giant gouernment of that part of the land nowe knowne by Albion and his followers , and gave the island a the name of England : so that the same was long after These legends fill a whole book of called Loegria , or Logiers ...
Then came the giant gouernment of that part of the land nowe knowne by Albion and his followers , and gave the island a the name of England : so that the same was long after These legends fill a whole book of called Loegria , or Logiers ...
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tagged ' dramatisation of Paradise Lost , called It will have been observed from this catalogue- The State of Innocence ( 1674 ) , which Dryden also and indeed it generally known — that the larger called an opera , and which is said to ...
tagged ' dramatisation of Paradise Lost , called It will have been observed from this catalogue- The State of Innocence ( 1674 ) , which Dryden also and indeed it generally known — that the larger called an opera , and which is said to ...
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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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