Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... noble passage , one sonnet , one published , and Dickens had issued only a very song , one aphorism or sententious saying but few of the long series of his stories . Darwin something there should be , as a rule , to illus- had not yet ...
... noble passage , one sonnet , one published , and Dickens had issued only a very song , one aphorism or sententious saying but few of the long series of his stories . Darwin something there should be , as a rule , to illus- had not yet ...
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... noble fame . The Scôp ( that is , the Shaper , the Poet ) , in the Complaint of Deor , is not so happy as Widsith . He is no rover , but lives with his lord , and has from him lands and wealth . But his rival , Heorrenda , supplants him ...
... noble fame . The Scôp ( that is , the Shaper , the Poet ) , in the Complaint of Deor , is not so happy as Widsith . He is no rover , but lives with his lord , and has from him lands and wealth . But his rival , Heorrenda , supplants him ...
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... noble argument suited well with the circumstances of Ælfred's life and with his spiritual character . He added to Boethius long passages of his own ; and the fifth book is nearly altogether rewritten by the king . He filled the Stoic's ...
... noble argument suited well with the circumstances of Ælfred's life and with his spiritual character . He added to Boethius long passages of his own ; and the fifth book is nearly altogether rewritten by the king . He filled the Stoic's ...
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... noble songs of Brunanburh and Maldon . At Brunanburh , in the year 937 , England , under Æthelstan , Ælfred's grandson , vindicated her short - lived unity against the Danes , the Welsh , and the Scots , under Anlaf the Dane and ...
... noble songs of Brunanburh and Maldon . At Brunanburh , in the year 937 , England , under Æthelstan , Ælfred's grandson , vindicated her short - lived unity against the Danes , the Welsh , and the Scots , under Anlaf the Dane and ...
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... noble champions of England . The Canones Ælfrici , which followed his transla- tions of the Bible , were written about the year 1000 . They were in Latin and addressed to the clergy . In 1006 or 1007 , when he was Abbot of Eynsham , he ...
... noble champions of England . The Canones Ælfrici , which followed his transla- tions of the Bible , were written about the year 1000 . They were in Latin and addressed to the clergy . In 1006 or 1007 , when he was Abbot of Eynsham , he ...
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