A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... kind belonging to the histories of the Latin , the Welsh , and the Irish literatures of the same early period . The history of any national literature , in fact , naturally divides itself into three portions , all very distinct from one ...
... kind belonging to the histories of the Latin , the Welsh , and the Irish literatures of the same early period . The history of any national literature , in fact , naturally divides itself into three portions , all very distinct from one ...
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... kind , until the fierce marauders at last won for themselves a settlement in the country , is the last name eminent for scholarship that occurs in this portion of the English annals . The historian William of Malmesbury , indeed ...
... kind , until the fierce marauders at last won for themselves a settlement in the country , is the last name eminent for scholarship that occurs in this portion of the English annals . The historian William of Malmesbury , indeed ...
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... , be read , but not so as to bring out from the most elaborate compositions in it any artistic element , except of the most dubious and unsatisfactory kind . Either such an element 34 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE .
... , be read , but not so as to bring out from the most elaborate compositions in it any artistic element , except of the most dubious and unsatisfactory kind . Either such an element 34 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE .
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George Lillie Craik. most dubious and unsatisfactory kind . Either such an element is not present in any considerable degree , or the language is not now intimately enough known for any one to be able to detect it . If it is not ...
George Lillie Craik. most dubious and unsatisfactory kind . Either such an element is not present in any considerable degree , or the language is not now intimately enough known for any one to be able to detect it . If it is not ...
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... kind of invasion and conquest belonged properly to the night of barbarism , but in certain of the extreme parts of the European system something of it survived down to a compara- tively late date . Much that we are told of the manner in ...
... kind of invasion and conquest belonged properly to the night of barbarism , but in certain of the extreme parts of the European system something of it survived down to a compara- tively late date . Much that we are told of the manner in ...
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