A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... remarkable . Any one who will take the trouble to ascertain the fact will find how completely even our great poets and other writers of the last generation have already faded from the view of the present with the most numerous class of ...
... remarkable . Any one who will take the trouble to ascertain the fact will find how completely even our great poets and other writers of the last generation have already faded from the view of the present with the most numerous class of ...
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... remarkable that , while a good many names of natives of Gaul are recorded in connexion with the last age of Roman literature , scarcely a British name of that period of any literary reputation has been preserved , if we except a few ...
... remarkable that , while a good many names of natives of Gaul are recorded in connexion with the last age of Roman literature , scarcely a British name of that period of any literary reputation has been preserved , if we except a few ...
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... highest reputation for learning ; but his writings are chiefly remarkable for their elaborately unnatural and fantastic rhetoric . His Latin style bears some resemblance to the pedantic English EARLY LATIN LITERATURE .
... highest reputation for learning ; but his writings are chiefly remarkable for their elaborately unnatural and fantastic rhetoric . His Latin style bears some resemblance to the pedantic English EARLY LATIN LITERATURE .
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... remarkable that the alphabet , in the number and powers of its elements , exactly corresponds with that which Cadmus is recorded to have brought to Greece from Phoenicia . If we may believe the national traditions , and the most ancient ...
... remarkable that the alphabet , in the number and powers of its elements , exactly corresponds with that which Cadmus is recorded to have brought to Greece from Phoenicia . If we may believe the national traditions , and the most ancient ...
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... remarkable feats of the female authorship of our day . The most voluminous of the ancient Welsh remains , however , are the poems of the Bards . The authenticity of these compositions had till recently been regarded as having been ...
... remarkable feats of the female authorship of our day . The most voluminous of the ancient Welsh remains , however , are the poems of the Bards . The authenticity of these compositions had till recently been regarded as having been ...
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