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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... English history , written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till the reign of Henry II . Altogether , considering the general state of Western Europe in the middle ages ...
... English history , written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till the reign of Henry II . Altogether , considering the general state of Western Europe in the middle ages ...
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... English literature . These writers composed most frequently in rhymed couplets , each line containing eight syllables . † COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT FORM OF ENGLISH . Of the century following the Conquest , the only other compositions ...
... English literature . These writers composed most frequently in rhymed couplets , each line containing eight syllables . † COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT FORM OF ENGLISH . Of the century following the Conquest , the only other compositions ...
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... English may plainly be discovered . ' does not , as already hinted , contain many Norman words , but its grammatical structure is considerably It altered . There is a metrical Saxon or English trans- lation , by one LAYAMON , a priest ...
... English may plainly be discovered . ' does not , as already hinted , contain many Norman words , but its grammatical structure is considerably It altered . There is a metrical Saxon or English trans- lation , by one LAYAMON , a priest ...
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... ENGLISH LITERATURE . as of history . [ The interview of Vortigern with Rowen , the beautiful Daughter of Hengist . ] Hengist that day did his might , That all were glad , king and knight . And as they were best in glading , And well cup ...
... ENGLISH LITERATURE . as of history . [ The interview of Vortigern with Rowen , the beautiful Daughter of Hengist . ] Hengist that day did his might , That all were glad , king and knight . And as they were best in glading , And well cup ...
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A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical History Robert Chambers. METRICAL ROMANCES . ENGLISH LITERATURE . as of history . Even where a ...
A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical History Robert Chambers. METRICAL ROMANCES . ENGLISH LITERATURE . as of history . Even where a ...
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