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 1 |
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Page 106
... passed into the cytie , and made in sondry places therof proclamacions in the kynges name , that no man , payne of dethe , shulde robbe or take any thynge par- force without payinge therfore . By reason wherof he wanne many hertes of ...
... passed into the cytie , and made in sondry places therof proclamacions in the kynges name , that no man , payne of dethe , shulde robbe or take any thynge par- force without payinge therfore . By reason wherof he wanne many hertes of ...
Page 235
... passed in the race by Spain and England . This , then , is to be noted , that we find Italian literature the first in Europe , and that we leave it the fourth ; the rapid , steady decline of Italy being a phenomenon of highest import in ...
... passed in the race by Spain and England . This , then , is to be noted , that we find Italian literature the first in Europe , and that we leave it the fourth ; the rapid , steady decline of Italy being a phenomenon of highest import in ...
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... passed her . For in 1588 there was little being produced or prepared that could have suggested to such a general observer as did not then exist in the world that we could pretend to anything better than the fourth place among the ...
... passed her . For in 1588 there was little being produced or prepared that could have suggested to such a general observer as did not then exist in the world that we could pretend to anything better than the fourth place among the ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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