A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper. Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Choice Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms... |
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... labor with increasing zeal in that holy cause , to which he had devoted himself in his earlier years . His inveterate enemies , the papal clergy , betrayed an indecent joy at his death , and the council of Constance , thirty years after ...
... labor with increasing zeal in that holy cause , to which he had devoted himself in his earlier years . His inveterate enemies , the papal clergy , betrayed an indecent joy at his death , and the council of Constance , thirty years after ...
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... labor , which he completed in 1380. The following is but a mild speci- men of Papal rage . It is from one Henry Knyghton , a cotemporary priest . " This master John Wiclif translated out of Latin into English , the Gospel which Christ ...
... labor , which he completed in 1380. The following is but a mild speci- men of Papal rage . It is from one Henry Knyghton , a cotemporary priest . " This master John Wiclif translated out of Latin into English , the Gospel which Christ ...
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... is unquestiona- bly due to Lawrence Coster , of Haarlem , who first found out the method of impressing characters on paper , by means of blocks of carved wood , about a great expense of time and labor , and with 1485-1509 . ] 35 CAXTON .
... is unquestiona- bly due to Lawrence Coster , of Haarlem , who first found out the method of impressing characters on paper , by means of blocks of carved wood , about a great expense of time and labor , and with 1485-1509 . ] 35 CAXTON .
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... labor , and with an industry to which all obstacles will ever give way , made himself complete master of it , as then known . He first employed himself in translating from French into English . The Recuyell ' of the Histories of Troye ...
... labor , and with an industry to which all obstacles will ever give way , made himself complete master of it , as then known . He first employed himself in translating from French into English . The Recuyell ' of the Histories of Troye ...
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... labor heated sore . XXX . Then came the Autumne all in yellow clad , As though he ioyed in his plentious store , Laden with fruits that made him laugh , full glad That he had banisht hunger , which to - fore Had by the belly oft him ...
... labor heated sore . XXX . Then came the Autumne all in yellow clad , As though he ioyed in his plentious store , Laden with fruits that made him laugh , full glad That he had banisht hunger , which to - fore Had by the belly oft him ...
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