Cyclopædia of English literature, Volumen1William and Robert Chambers, 1843 |
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... writing , 1 Autograph of Sir Philip Sidney , . Chair of Bede , 3 Portrait of Richard Hooker , Illumination - a Minstrel , 8 Portrait of Lord Bacon , 232 View of St Lawrence Church , 235 Portrait of Dr Robert South , 239 View of Islip ...
... writing , 1 Autograph of Sir Philip Sidney , . Chair of Bede , 3 Portrait of Richard Hooker , Illumination - a Minstrel , 8 Portrait of Lord Bacon , 232 View of St Lawrence Church , 235 Portrait of Dr Robert South , 239 View of Islip ...
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... written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British parentage ...
... written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British parentage ...
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... writing simply , we select a specimen of Anglo - Saxon prose from his Paschal homily , adding an interlinear ... written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till ...
... writing simply , we select a specimen of Anglo - Saxon prose from his Paschal homily , adding an interlinear ... written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till ...
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... written in their language trouveres . In Provence , there arose a series of elegant versifiers , who employed their talents in composing romantic and complimentary poems , full of warlike and ama- tory sentiment , which many of them ...
... written in their language trouveres . In Provence , there arose a series of elegant versifiers , who employed their talents in composing romantic and complimentary poems , full of warlike and ama- tory sentiment , which many of them ...
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... written about the year 1138 . About 1154 , according to Dr Johnson , " the Saxon began to take a form in which the beginning of the present English may plainly be discovered . " does not , as already hinted , contain many Norman words ...
... written about the year 1138 . About 1154 , according to Dr Johnson , " the Saxon began to take a form in which the beginning of the present English may plainly be discovered . " does not , as already hinted , contain many Norman words ...
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Página 169 - there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only
Página 306 - meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd
Página 188 - show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this— That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. Merchant
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