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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... remarkable of which are contained in the series called the Mabinogi or Tales of Youth . Most of those that have been translated into English , such as Peredur and the Lady of the Fountain , are merely versions from some of the finest of ...
... remarkable of which are contained in the series called the Mabinogi or Tales of Youth . Most of those that have been translated into English , such as Peredur and the Lady of the Fountain , are merely versions from some of the finest of ...
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... remarkable alike as almost the only learned layman of the Dark Ages , and as the only one who attained original views in speculative philosophy , was almost certainly a native of Ireland . But France was the principal scene of his ...
... remarkable alike as almost the only learned layman of the Dark Ages , and as the only one who attained original views in speculative philosophy , was almost certainly a native of Ireland . But France was the principal scene of his ...
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... remarkable of the religious poems are those attri- d . ab . buted to the Northumbrian Cadmon , who lived in the 680. latter part of the seventh century . His poetic vein came to light in a singular fashion . Employed as a servant of the ...
... remarkable of the religious poems are those attri- d . ab . buted to the Northumbrian Cadmon , who lived in the 680. latter part of the seventh century . His poetic vein came to light in a singular fashion . Employed as a servant of the ...
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... remarkable for its anxious and obscure elaboration , than their prose for its straightforward and perspicuous simplicity . The uses , indeed , to which prose writing was put among them , were lmost always of a practical cast . The ...
... remarkable for its anxious and obscure elaboration , than their prose for its straightforward and perspicuous simplicity . The uses , indeed , to which prose writing was put among them , were lmost always of a practical cast . The ...
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... remarkable . The twelfth century , beginning with the reign of the accomplished Henry Beauclerc , and closing with that of the chivalrous Cour de Lion , was distinguished , beyond all parts of our medieval his- tory , for the prosperity ...
... remarkable . The twelfth century , beginning with the reign of the accomplished Henry Beauclerc , and closing with that of the chivalrous Cour de Lion , was distinguished , beyond all parts of our medieval his- tory , for the prosperity ...
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