A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... Passage The Whirling House " " " " 99 " " " " 99 PAGE 287 288 288 Canterbury Tales ; The Prioress ( from the ... Passages relating to the Host Part of the Clerk's Tale of Griselda 299 304 99 " " Gower - Confessio Amantis ; Notice of ...
... Passage The Whirling House " " " " 99 " " " " 99 PAGE 287 288 288 Canterbury Tales ; The Prioress ( from the ... Passages relating to the Host Part of the Clerk's Tale of Griselda 299 304 99 " " Gower - Confessio Amantis ; Notice of ...
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... passages of Bardic com position which are lost . " * Then there is the collection of romantic prose tales known as the Mabinogion , preserved in a MS . of the fourteenth century , which has now been published , with an English ...
... passages of Bardic com position which are lost . " * Then there is the collection of romantic prose tales known as the Mabinogion , preserved in a MS . of the fourteenth century , which has now been published , with an English ...
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... passages of the printed text formed no part of Asser's work , but were the insertions of Archbishop Parker " from a spurious work which he found bound up with the MS . , still in the library of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , from ...
... passages of the printed text formed no part of Asser's work , but were the insertions of Archbishop Parker " from a spurious work which he found bound up with the MS . , still in the library of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , from ...
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... passage in Asser's work in which the name occurs be , as is generally supposed , spurious , and if the History passing under his name was really written by Ingulphus . The studies that were cultivated in those ages were few in number ...
... passage in Asser's work in which the name occurs be , as is generally supposed , spurious , and if the History passing under his name was really written by Ingulphus . The studies that were cultivated in those ages were few in number ...
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... passages in blank verse , in Professor Conybeare's Illustrations of Anglo - Saxon Poetry , published in 1826 by his brother , the Rev. W. D. Conybeare . There is likewise an English translation of the whole in rhyme by Professor A ...
... passages in blank verse , in Professor Conybeare's Illustrations of Anglo - Saxon Poetry , published in 1826 by his brother , the Rev. W. D. Conybeare . There is likewise an English translation of the whole in rhyme by Professor A ...
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