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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... received from letters much of direct aid , in respect both of the materials which compose its lessons , and of the means which are used for their communica- tion . But those intellectual pursuits , which do not ultimately aim at this ...
... received from letters much of direct aid , in respect both of the materials which compose its lessons , and of the means which are used for their communica- tion . But those intellectual pursuits , which do not ultimately aim at this ...
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... received corporate privileges from the popes , and is honorably commemo- rated as having repeatedly given valiant aid in the defence of the city . Alfred is said to have sent alms every year to Rome , receiving , in return , not only ...
... received corporate privileges from the popes , and is honorably commemo- rated as having repeatedly given valiant aid in the defence of the city . Alfred is said to have sent alms every year to Rome , receiving , in return , not only ...
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... received very many foreigners Thus , in the seventh century , the most active promoters of erudi- tion among the Anglo - Saxons were the Abbot Adrian , an African sent from Naples , and the Archbishop Theodore , a native of Tarsus , who ...
... received very many foreigners Thus , in the seventh century , the most active promoters of erudi- tion among the Anglo - Saxons were the Abbot Adrian , an African sent from Naples , and the Archbishop Theodore , a native of Tarsus , who ...
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... received numerous metrical contributions of a different class . The distant echoes of the heathen past had almost ... receiving some education , was enrolled among ANGLO - SAXON POETRY . 43.
... received numerous metrical contributions of a different class . The distant echoes of the heathen past had almost ... receiving some education , was enrolled among ANGLO - SAXON POETRY . 43.
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... receiving some education , was enrolled among the monks , and spent the remainder of his life in writing religious poetry . His dream - song , preserved by Alfred , is more coherent than Coleridge's verses of similar origin , but has ...
... receiving some education , was enrolled among the monks , and spent the remainder of his life in writing religious poetry . His dream - song , preserved by Alfred , is more coherent than Coleridge's verses of similar origin , but has ...
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