Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... less note . age presents us with historical chronicles , theologi- cal treatises , religious , political , and narrative poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * The earliest name in the list of ...
... less note . age presents us with historical chronicles , theologi- cal treatises , religious , political , and narrative poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * The earliest name in the list of ...
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... less necessary to speak parti- cularly of them in this place . Our subsequent lite- rary history is formed of comparatively obscure names , until it presents to us the enlightened and amiable King ALFRED ( 848-901 ) . * in whom learning ...
... less necessary to speak parti- cularly of them in this place . Our subsequent lite- rary history is formed of comparatively obscure names , until it presents to us the enlightened and amiable King ALFRED ( 848-901 ) . * in whom learning ...
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... less poetical air than it bears in Geoffrey's prose . The language is full of Saxon pe- culiarities , which might partly be the result of his living in so remote a province as Gloucestershire . Another critic acknowledges that , though ...
... less poetical air than it bears in Geoffrey's prose . The language is full of Saxon pe- culiarities , which might partly be the result of his living in so remote a province as Gloucestershire . Another critic acknowledges that , though ...
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... less rule of art than opu- lence of materials , the productions of these writers are often deficient in taste , and contain much that is totally aside from the purpose . To pursue the simile above quoted , the crops are not so clean as ...
... less rule of art than opu- lence of materials , the productions of these writers are often deficient in taste , and contain much that is totally aside from the purpose . To pursue the simile above quoted , the crops are not so clean as ...
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... less . Look here , I say . ' I look'd , and Stella spied , Who hard by made a window send forth light . My heart then quaked , then dazzled were mine eyes ; One hand forgot to rule , th ' other to fight ; Nor trumpet's sound I heard ...
... less . Look here , I say . ' I look'd , and Stella spied , Who hard by made a window send forth light . My heart then quaked , then dazzled were mine eyes ; One hand forgot to rule , th ' other to fight ; Nor trumpet's sound I heard ...
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