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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... light on the narrative and observations furnished by the Text . The selections have been made in obedience to the same considerations , which dic- tated copious criticisms of a few leading writers . The works quoted from are not many in ...
... light on the narrative and observations furnished by the Text . The selections have been made in obedience to the same considerations , which dic- tated copious criticisms of a few leading writers . The works quoted from are not many in ...
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... light were already breaking through . The great event was that vast series of emigrations which planted tribes of Gothic blood over large tracts of Europe , and established that race as sovereigns in other regions , where the population ...
... light were already breaking through . The great event was that vast series of emigrations which planted tribes of Gothic blood over large tracts of Europe , and established that race as sovereigns in other regions , where the population ...
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... light which is thrown on them from the world without . Then , for instance , if we begin to contemplate the history of Modern Times , the blaze of intellectual glory which genius dif- fused around the throne of Elizabeth when her sun ...
... light which is thrown on them from the world without . Then , for instance , if we begin to contemplate the history of Modern Times , the blaze of intellectual glory which genius dif- fused around the throne of Elizabeth when her sun ...
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... light up the dim beginnings of a people's history . Their prose works , too , when they are in substance original , are plainly no more than strainings at a task , which could not be adequately performed with the language or the ...
... light up the dim beginnings of a people's history . Their prose works , too , when they are in substance original , are plainly no more than strainings at a task , which could not be adequately performed with the language or the ...
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... light in a singular fashion . Employed as a servant of the monastery at Whitby , he passed his best days without instruc- tion , nourishing the love of sacred song , but unable to give ex- pression to the images and feelings that ...
... light in a singular fashion . Employed as a servant of the monastery at Whitby , he passed his best days without instruc- tion , nourishing the love of sacred song , but unable to give ex- pression to the images and feelings that ...
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