A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1862 - 423 |
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... death of Bede to his own time . To form the future English character , it was necessary that the harder and sterner elements which belonged to the Scandinavian races , should be mingled and gradually fused with the softer Teutonic type ...
... death of Bede to his own time . To form the future English character , it was necessary that the harder and sterner elements which belonged to the Scandinavian races , should be mingled and gradually fused with the softer Teutonic type ...
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... death , are not certainly known , but who was , at any rate , a native of the British Isles , after lecturing at Paris with extraordinary success , is said to have died at Bologna , in 1308. William of Occam , styled the Invincible ...
... death , are not certainly known , but who was , at any rate , a native of the British Isles , after lecturing at Paris with extraordinary success , is said to have died at Bologna , in 1308. William of Occam , styled the Invincible ...
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... death , in 1237 , left behind him a chronicle entitled Flores Historiarum , which is con- sidered to be divided into three parts . The first , extend- ing from the Creation to the year A.D. 447 , is entirely copied from older authors ...
... death , in 1237 , left behind him a chronicle entitled Flores Historiarum , which is con- sidered to be divided into three parts . The first , extend- ing from the Creation to the year A.D. 447 , is entirely copied from older authors ...
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... death of the brave Roland on the field of Roncesvalles . This poem , although in the shape in which we now have it , it was not written down earlier than the twelfth century , in its primitive form is believed to date . from the reign ...
... death of the brave Roland on the field of Roncesvalles . This poem , although in the shape in which we now have it , it was not written down earlier than the twelfth century , in its primitive form is believed to date . from the reign ...
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... death of Edward I. in 1307. The opening of the second part explains so simply and clearly the motives which induced the rhyming chroniclers to employ themselves on a task which to our modern notions involves a strange misappli- cation ...
... death of Edward I. in 1307. The opening of the second part explains so simply and clearly the motives which induced the rhyming chroniclers to employ themselves on a task which to our modern notions involves a strange misappli- cation ...
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