Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... ENGLAND . The first literary productions which call for at- tention after the Conquest , are a class which may be considered as in a great measure foreign to the country and its language . Before the invasion of England by William ...
... ENGLAND . The first literary productions which call for at- tention after the Conquest , are a class which may be considered as in a great measure foreign to the country and its language . Before the invasion of England by William ...
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... England , are works written in Latin by learned ecclesiastics , the principal of whom were John of Salisbury , Peter of Blois , Joseph of Exeter , and GEOFFREY of MONMOUTH , the last being the author of the History of England just ...
... England , are works written in Latin by learned ecclesiastics , the principal of whom were John of Salisbury , Peter of Blois , Joseph of Exeter , and GEOFFREY of MONMOUTH , the last being the author of the History of England just ...
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... England , Lord of Ireland , Duke of Nor - That about in each lond the cross fast me nome.3 mandy , of Acquitain , Earl of Anjou , sends greeting to all his subjects , learned and unlearned , of Hunting- donshire . This know ye well all ...
... England , Lord of Ireland , Duke of Nor - That about in each lond the cross fast me nome.3 mandy , of Acquitain , Earl of Anjou , sends greeting to all his subjects , learned and unlearned , of Hunting- donshire . This know ye well all ...
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... England , which had been written by Peter stories . He afterwards translated a French chro- de Langtoft , a contemporary of his own , and an ning has been characterised as an industrious , and , Augustine canon of Bridlington in ...
... England , which had been written by Peter stories . He afterwards translated a French chro- de Langtoft , a contemporary of his own , and an ning has been characterised as an industrious , and , Augustine canon of Bridlington in ...
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... England previous able variety of examples will be found in the volumes to the invention of printing . It is the popular re- of which the titles are given below . The earliest presentative of the doctrines which were silently that can be ...
... England previous able variety of examples will be found in the volumes to the invention of printing . It is the popular re- of which the titles are given below . The earliest presentative of the doctrines which were silently that can be ...
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