A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and sons, 1880 |
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... literary jealousy of the Egyptians stopped the supply of papyrus , caused his subjects to write on sheep - skins , hence called Pergamena or parchment . Vellum , a finer material , is prepared calf - skin . Besides these , a common form ...
... literary jealousy of the Egyptians stopped the supply of papyrus , caused his subjects to write on sheep - skins , hence called Pergamena or parchment . Vellum , a finer material , is prepared calf - skin . Besides these , a common form ...
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... literary forgeries , executed by their clever but not very scrupulous editor . The ancient manuscripts , from which he professed to have trans- lated these graphic pictures of old Celtic life , have never been produced . A narrative in ...
... literary forgeries , executed by their clever but not very scrupulous editor . The ancient manuscripts , from which he professed to have trans- lated these graphic pictures of old Celtic life , have never been produced . A narrative in ...
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... literary toil . Both sword and pen were familiar tools in that cunning right hand . Alfred the Great was born in 848 , at Wantage in Berkshire . Two visits to Rome in his early days gave him a wider range of observation and thought than ...
... literary toil . Both sword and pen were familiar tools in that cunning right hand . Alfred the Great was born in 848 , at Wantage in Berkshire . Two visits to Rome in his early days gave him a wider range of observation and thought than ...
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... literary history of this time was the introduction into England of the Norman Romance . With Chivalry , from which it was inseparable , and from whose stirring life it took all its colours , the Romance rose and fell . From the ...
... literary history of this time was the introduction into England of the Norman Romance . With Chivalry , from which it was inseparable , and from whose stirring life it took all its colours , the Romance rose and fell . From the ...
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... literary career . Dr. Craik thus sums up the leading facts in the history of English metrical romance : — 1. At least the first examples of it were translations from the French . 2. If any such were produced so early as before the close ...
... literary career . Dr. Craik thus sums up the leading facts in the history of English metrical romance : — 1. At least the first examples of it were translations from the French . 2. If any such were produced so early as before the close ...
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