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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... story which this part tells , should be familiar to every one who would understand , thoroughly , the History of English Literature ; and therefore it deserved , if it did not rather positively require , admission as an appendix to a ...
... story which this part tells , should be familiar to every one who would understand , thoroughly , the History of English Literature ; and therefore it deserved , if it did not rather positively require , admission as an appendix to a ...
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... Stories . - 9 . Uses of the Collections of Tales - Reading in Monasteries - Manuals for Preachers - Morals an- nexed in ... Story . - 4 . Authors and Translators of Anglo - Norman Romances - Chiefly Eng- lishmen - Borron - Gast - Mapos ...
... Stories . - 9 . Uses of the Collections of Tales - Reading in Monasteries - Manuals for Preachers - Morals an- nexed in ... Story . - 4 . Authors and Translators of Anglo - Norman Romances - Chiefly Eng- lishmen - Borron - Gast - Mapos ...
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... stories comic and satirical . It was always a rare thing , and for a long time was an occurrence quite unheard of , for a book to be written which aimed at interesting more than one of those groups . It was another characteristic fact ...
... stories comic and satirical . It was always a rare thing , and for a long time was an occurrence quite unheard of , for a book to be written which aimed at interesting more than one of those groups . It was another characteristic fact ...
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... stories of Prince Pwyll and Math the Enchanter , are very similar to the older Norse sagas ; and these , if not very ancient in their present shape , must have sprung from the traditions of an exceedingly rude and early generation ...
... stories of Prince Pwyll and Math the Enchanter , are very similar to the older Norse sagas ; and these , if not very ancient in their present shape , must have sprung from the traditions of an exceedingly rude and early generation ...
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... story told by the old historians , had been deeply moved by seeing Anglo - Saxon youths exposed in the slave market of Rome . For several generations before the Nor- man conquest , Great Britain and Ireland were , in THE ANGLO - SAXON ...
... story told by the old historians , had been deeply moved by seeing Anglo - Saxon youths exposed in the slave market of Rome . For several generations before the Nor- man conquest , Great Britain and Ireland were , in THE ANGLO - SAXON ...
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