Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... Church and State in the English dialogues . With them we may close the poetry of the ninth century . A few years ... Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged ...
... Church and State in the English dialogues . With them we may close the poetry of the ninth century . A few years ... Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged ...
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... Church ; Northumbria must be drawn into the Latin fold ; and Theodore , Wilfrid , and others , with Prince Alchfrith , fought their battle so well that in 664 , at the Synod of Whitby , Northumbria joined the Latin Church . And now ...
... Church ; Northumbria must be drawn into the Latin fold ; and Theodore , Wilfrid , and others , with Prince Alchfrith , fought their battle so well that in 664 , at the Synod of Whitby , Northumbria joined the Latin Church . And now ...
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... Church , but also the people in the history of their own land . It omits several chapters of the original , and the king adds nothing of his own . We may wonder why he gave no particular account in it of the history of Church and State ...
... Church , but also the people in the history of their own land . It omits several chapters of the original , and the king adds nothing of his own . We may wonder why he gave no particular account in it of the history of Church and State ...
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... church on various high festivals as part of the service of the day . The earliest mention we have of a play of this kind is of one in honour of St Catherine , performed at Dunstable by a certain Geoffrey , who by 1119 had become Abbot ...
... church on various high festivals as part of the service of the day . The earliest mention we have of a play of this kind is of one in honour of St Catherine , performed at Dunstable by a certain Geoffrey , who by 1119 had become Abbot ...
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... church to teach the unlearned . But in the same passage Mannyng mentions , though only to reprobate , the acting of plays ' in weyes or grenes , ' and this removal from the church and its precincts speedily altered their character . In ...
... church to teach the unlearned . But in the same passage Mannyng mentions , though only to reprobate , the acting of plays ' in weyes or grenes , ' and this removal from the church and its precincts speedily altered their character . In ...
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