A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... compositions of which it consists , and the names of their authors , are rapidly enumerated by way of Introduction , along with the leading particulars of the same kind belonging to the histories of the Latin , the Welsh , and the Irish ...
... compositions of which it consists , and the names of their authors , are rapidly enumerated by way of Introduction , along with the leading particulars of the same kind belonging to the histories of the Latin , the Welsh , and the Irish ...
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... composition ) compose all the funda- mental framework of the language , all that may be called its skeleton or bony structure , and also perhaps the better part of its muscular tissue . " The portion of our literature to which the ...
... composition ) compose all the funda- mental framework of the language , all that may be called its skeleton or bony structure , and also perhaps the better part of its muscular tissue . " The portion of our literature to which the ...
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... composition in words , or thought artistically so expressed , literature ; but , on the one hand , there is abundance of writing , and of printing too , which is not literature in this proper sense , and , on the other , it is not a ...
... composition in words , or thought artistically so expressed , literature ; but , on the one hand , there is abundance of writing , and of printing too , which is not literature in this proper sense , and , on the other , it is not a ...
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... composition of his celebrated Ecclesiastical History of England , which he brought to a close in his fifty - ninth year . It is our chief original authority for the earlier portion even of the civil history of the English nation . But ...
... composition of his celebrated Ecclesiastical History of England , which he brought to a close in his fifty - ninth year . It is our chief original authority for the earlier portion even of the civil history of the English nation . But ...
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... compositions that have been preserved claim to be of the fifth century . Some fragments of metrical productions to which this date is attributed are found in the old annalists , and more abun- dant specimens occur in the same records ...
... compositions that have been preserved claim to be of the fifth century . Some fragments of metrical productions to which this date is attributed are found in the old annalists , and more abun- dant specimens occur in the same records ...
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