Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... thought , the vehicle of our feelings . Queen Elizabeth's statesmen and soldiers and sailors had given England a new place in the councils of Europe , the Elizabethan poets had lent a new glory to the Tudor court and capital , English ...
... thought , the vehicle of our feelings . Queen Elizabeth's statesmen and soldiers and sailors had given England a new place in the councils of Europe , the Elizabethan poets had lent a new glory to the Tudor court and capital , English ...
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... thought and felt , but in the west of Ireland and Scotland , in Wales , and in the Midland Counties of England we still meet short , dark- haired , long - skulled people who retain the characteristics of this steady and valiant race ...
... thought and felt , but in the west of Ireland and Scotland , in Wales , and in the Midland Counties of England we still meet short , dark- haired , long - skulled people who retain the characteristics of this steady and valiant race ...
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... thought , they did not use the English language . All that they wrote they wrote in Latin . The Celtic Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged this ; and the ...
... thought , they did not use the English language . All that they wrote they wrote in Latin . The Celtic Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged this ; and the ...
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... thought with his own profound Christianity , with solemn passages on the Divine Nature and its relation to man's ... thoughts and feelings as a king , with his scorn of wealth and fame and power in comparison with goodness . He stands in ...
... thought with his own profound Christianity , with solemn passages on the Divine Nature and its relation to man's ... thoughts and feelings as a king , with his scorn of wealth and fame and power in comparison with goodness . He stands in ...
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... thought from certain similarities in diction , manner , and rhythm that this Old Saxon poem ( some lines of which , identical with corresponding lines in the West Saxon insertion , have been lately discovered ) was written by the writer ...
... thought from certain similarities in diction , manner , and rhythm that this Old Saxon poem ( some lines of which , identical with corresponding lines in the West Saxon insertion , have been lately discovered ) was written by the writer ...
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