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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... greater than any of these was the Northumbrian Beda , whose name receives by immemorial custom an epithet expressing well - merited rev- b . 672 , erence . The Venerable Bede , entering in boyhood the d . 735. monastery of Wearmouth ...
... greater than any of these was the Northumbrian Beda , whose name receives by immemorial custom an epithet expressing well - merited rev- b . 672 , erence . The Venerable Bede , entering in boyhood the d . 735. monastery of Wearmouth ...
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... greater part of the Middle Ages . The individual Historians , all of them ecclesiastics , were very numerous . Among those who have claims to notice for skill in writing , William of Malmesbury , one of the earliest , ( but virtually ...
... greater part of the Middle Ages . The individual Historians , all of them ecclesiastics , were very numerous . Among those who have claims to notice for skill in writing , William of Malmesbury , one of the earliest , ( but virtually ...
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... greater was attained , and a wider influence exerted on literature , by another series of fictions , not united by any one story , and known by a title for which , various as its mat- ter is , hardly any part of it furnishes a reason ...
... greater was attained , and a wider influence exerted on literature , by another series of fictions , not united by any one story , and known by a title for which , various as its mat- ter is , hardly any part of it furnishes a reason ...
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... greater free- dom . The latter of these names , however , introduces us , with seem- ing abruptness , to the most celebrated name in our literature . The longest piece in the " Gesta " is the romance of " Apollonius . " a very popular ...
... greater free- dom . The latter of these names , however , introduces us , with seem- ing abruptness , to the most celebrated name in our literature . The longest piece in the " Gesta " is the romance of " Apollonius . " a very popular ...
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... greater part of its poetry was narrative ; and most of the tales may be referred to the one or the other of two classes . There were the poems called Fabliaux , usually short stories , which had a familiar and comic tone , even when ...
... greater part of its poetry was narrative ; and most of the tales may be referred to the one or the other of two classes . There were the poems called Fabliaux , usually short stories , which had a familiar and comic tone , even when ...
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