Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... hand for the folk , direful punishment ; they cared not for that . Then , after many a winter , the faithful Creator saw that mightiest ocean - house towering up ready ; within and without with the lime of earth made fast against the ...
... hand for the folk , direful punishment ; they cared not for that . Then , after many a winter , the faithful Creator saw that mightiest ocean - house towering up ready ; within and without with the lime of earth made fast against the ...
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... Hand - book . When Asser quoted or Ælfred read out of the Bible or the Fathers any passage which interested the king , it was written down and translated into English in the note - book which the king kept in his breast . It was a book ...
... Hand - book . When Asser quoted or Ælfred read out of the Bible or the Fathers any passage which interested the king , it was written down and translated into English in the note - book which the king kept in his breast . It was a book ...
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... hand she bore . ' Adam , O my Lord , this apple is so sweet , Blithe within the breast ; bright this messenger ; By his gear I ' Tis an Angel good from God ! That he is the errand - bringer of our heavenly King ! I can see Him now from ...
... hand she bore . ' Adam , O my Lord , this apple is so sweet , Blithe within the breast ; bright this messenger ; By his gear I ' Tis an Angel good from God ! That he is the errand - bringer of our heavenly King ! I can see Him now from ...
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... hand - in - hand with the saga stories over England , awakened the imagina- tion of the farmer and the peasant . Then , too , the monasteries , under his influence , now became the home of learned men who wrote on science as well as on ...
... hand - in - hand with the saga stories over England , awakened the imagina- tion of the farmer and the peasant . Then , too , the monasteries , under his influence , now became the home of learned men who wrote on science as well as on ...
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... hand to the year 1131. Another hand , using a more modern English , carried it on from 1132 to 1154 , when it closed with the accession of Henry II . The records at Worcester and Peter- borough are not unworthy of the first records at ...
... hand to the year 1131. Another hand , using a more modern English , carried it on from 1132 to 1154 , when it closed with the accession of Henry II . The records at Worcester and Peter- borough are not unworthy of the first records at ...
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