English Literature for Boys and GirlsF. A. Stokes Company, 1916 - 686 When we were little, before we could read for ourselves, did we not gather eagerly round father or mother, friend or nurse, at the promise of a story? When we grew older, what happy hours did we not spend with our books. How the printed words made us forget the world in which we live, and carried us away to a wonderland, |
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... perhaps no book so common as the Bible . In homes where there are no other books we find at least a Bible , and the Bible stories are almost the first that we learn to know . But in the fourteenth century there were no English Bibles ...
... perhaps no book so common as the Bible . In homes where there are no other books we find at least a Bible , and the Bible stories are almost the first that we learn to know . But in the fourteenth century there were no English Bibles ...
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... Perhaps you would like to turn back and read it over again now . As we have said , Caxton was not merely a printer . He was an author too . But although he translated books both from French and Dutch , it is perhaps to his delightful ...
... Perhaps you would like to turn back and read it over again now . As we have said , Caxton was not merely a printer . He was an author too . But although he translated books both from French and Dutch , it is perhaps to his delightful ...
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... perhaps before you read his novels you will like to read his Metrical Romances . For when we are children- big children perhaps , but still children - is the time to read them . Long ago in the twelfth century , when the people of ...
... perhaps before you read his novels you will like to read his Metrical Romances . For when we are children- big children perhaps , but still children - is the time to read them . Long ago in the twelfth century , when the people of ...
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HOW CAEDMON SANG AND HOW HE FELL ONCE MORE | 73 |
THE FATHER OF ENGLISH HISTORY | 79 |
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