Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... began to appear before the close of 1842 , was completed in two volumes in 1844 , and was brought down to date and reprinted in 1858. It was revised and extended under the charge of Dr Carruthers in 1876 ; and a fourth reissue , again ...
... began to appear before the close of 1842 , was completed in two volumes in 1844 , and was brought down to date and reprinted in 1858. It was revised and extended under the charge of Dr Carruthers in 1876 ; and a fourth reissue , again ...
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... began to act on us again at the end of the eighteenth century , and at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth the Gaelic spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh and eighth ...
... began to act on us again at the end of the eighteenth century , and at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth the Gaelic spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh and eighth ...
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... began among the northern Cymry ( and the first records of which are to be found embedded in the compilation which goes under the name of Nennius - the Historia Britonum ) , came to South Wales , it got from thence into Brittany , was ...
... began among the northern Cymry ( and the first records of which are to be found embedded in the compilation which goes under the name of Nennius - the Historia Britonum ) , came to South Wales , it got from thence into Brittany , was ...
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... began in the ancient Engle - land while Britain was still a Roman province . Of this heathen poetry on the Continent we have still some fragments left . Portions of the mythical sagas , founded on the doings of nature and of the ...
... began in the ancient Engle - land while Britain was still a Roman province . Of this heathen poetry on the Continent we have still some fragments left . Portions of the mythical sagas , founded on the doings of nature and of the ...
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... began to make verse , we may fairly say , between 660 and 670 . We know the date of his death - 680 ; and we are told that he was somewhat advanced in years when the gift of song came upon him . We first find him as a secular attendant ...
... began to make verse , we may fairly say , between 660 and 670 . We know the date of his death - 680 ; and we are told that he was somewhat advanced in years when the gift of song came upon him . We first find him as a secular attendant ...
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