The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 páginas |
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... celebrated are discussed at considerable length , are hardly ever analyzed so fully as were some of the older ones ; and , as we approach our own times , it is presumed that particular description of the contents of popular books ...
... celebrated are discussed at considerable length , are hardly ever analyzed so fully as were some of the older ones ; and , as we approach our own times , it is presumed that particular description of the contents of popular books ...
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... celebrations , by an eye - witness , of events occurring in the third century . But , though we were to throw out of view the modern patchwork which disguises the original from the English reader , and though likewise we should hesitate ...
... celebrations , by an eye - witness , of events occurring in the third century . But , though we were to throw out of view the modern patchwork which disguises the original from the English reader , and though likewise we should hesitate ...
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... celebrated bards of the sixth century . It is pleasant to believe that the great Taliessin still speaks to us from his grave ; that we read the poems of Aneurin , the heroic and unfortunate prince of Cumbria and Strathclyde ; and that ...
... celebrated bards of the sixth century . It is pleasant to believe that the great Taliessin still speaks to us from his grave ; that we read the poems of Aneurin , the heroic and unfortunate prince of Cumbria and Strathclyde ; and that ...
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... celebrated as the oratory whence , towards the close of the fourth century , the Greek Saint Regulus went forth to christianize the Picts . It is better proved that there were British converts among the martyrs in the persecution of ...
... celebrated as the oratory whence , towards the close of the fourth century , the Greek Saint Regulus went forth to christianize the Picts . It is better proved that there were British converts among the martyrs in the persecution of ...
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... celebrating public or warlike events , if called forth at all by the wars with the Britons or with the earlier Danish in- vaders , have not reached our hands . Our only other specimens of the kind belong to the tenth century , which 40 ...
... celebrating public or warlike events , if called forth at all by the wars with the Britons or with the earlier Danish in- vaders , have not reached our hands . Our only other specimens of the kind belong to the tenth century , which 40 ...
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