A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and sons, 1880 |
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... brilliant with crimson and yellow and pale blue , and oblong like our modern page . It is a picture - writing of old Mexico , relating the reign and conquests of King Acamapich . Down the left border runs a broad stripe of blue ...
... brilliant with crimson and yellow and pale blue , and oblong like our modern page . It is a picture - writing of old Mexico , relating the reign and conquests of King Acamapich . Down the left border runs a broad stripe of blue ...
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... brilliant , the primary colours - red , yellow , and blue - being the prevailing hues . A hieroglyphic painting taken from the wall of an excavated temple in Nubia is before us . It represents the introduction of ambassadors to the ...
... brilliant , the primary colours - red , yellow , and blue - being the prevailing hues . A hieroglyphic painting taken from the wall of an excavated temple in Nubia is before us . It represents the introduction of ambassadors to the ...
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... brilliant roll of British historians stands Gildas , born at Alcluyd ( Dum- barton ) about the beginning of the sixth century . He is known to us as the author of a History of the Britons , and an Epistle to his countrymen , both in ...
... brilliant roll of British historians stands Gildas , born at Alcluyd ( Dum- barton ) about the beginning of the sixth century . He is known to us as the author of a History of the Britons , and an Epistle to his countrymen , both in ...
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... , for he was recognised as chief among the dis- tinguished group of wits and lettered men who encircled the throne of Charlemagne . The name by which he was known in It is He ERIGENA , THE LEARNED LAYMAN . 25 this brilliant circle.
... , for he was recognised as chief among the dis- tinguished group of wits and lettered men who encircled the throne of Charlemagne . The name by which he was known in It is He ERIGENA , THE LEARNED LAYMAN . 25 this brilliant circle.
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... brilliant circle was Flaccus Albinus , a title under which he could converse more freely with his friend David ( Charlemagne ) , than if the monk and the emperor always retained their distinctive names and titles . In his old age Alcuin ...
... brilliant circle was Flaccus Albinus , a title under which he could converse more freely with his friend David ( Charlemagne ) , than if the monk and the emperor always retained their distinctive names and titles . In his old age Alcuin ...
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