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... called Machabyas Chylde ; it was celebrated at St Margaret's , Westminster on October 27. And on December 5 his poetical work The Shepheardes Calender was entered for printing and appeared before that year ran out - perhaps indeed by ...
... called Machabyas Chylde ; it was celebrated at St Margaret's , Westminster on October 27. And on December 5 his poetical work The Shepheardes Calender was entered for printing and appeared before that year ran out - perhaps indeed by ...
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... called ' tanistry ' . The land belonged not to the chiefs but to the people ; a clan had not absolute ownership of a region but had regional rights of territory . Values were warrior values . The strength of a clan lay in its fighting ...
... called ' tanistry ' . The land belonged not to the chiefs but to the people ; a clan had not absolute ownership of a region but had regional rights of territory . Values were warrior values . The strength of a clan lay in its fighting ...
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... called it provignement , applying to words the metaphor from the vineyard : by ' layering ' , a shoot of the parent stem is slit and rooted , to become a separate plant . Spenser is certainly doing this in his poetry , first in The ...
... called it provignement , applying to words the metaphor from the vineyard : by ' layering ' , a shoot of the parent stem is slit and rooted , to become a separate plant . Spenser is certainly doing this in his poetry , first in The ...
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