A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and sons, 1880 |
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... royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here would be absurd . No fewer than twenty - three figures of birds with spread or folded wings are there . The sign for water is fre- quently repeated . Figures of men kneel and ...
... royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here would be absurd . No fewer than twenty - three figures of birds with spread or folded wings are there . The sign for water is fre- quently repeated . Figures of men kneel and ...
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... royal scholar's life and works . What Alfred did for England in those dark days , when Danish pirates ravaged the land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the ...
... royal scholar's life and works . What Alfred did for England in those dark days , when Danish pirates ravaged the land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the ...
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... royal witling ventured on no more puns , for that day at least , at the scholar's expense . Erigena is said to have died in France some time previous to the year 877 . DUNSTAN . -One of the foremost Saxons of his day , though more noted ...
... royal witling ventured on no more puns , for that day at least , at the scholar's expense . Erigena is said to have died in France some time previous to the year 877 . DUNSTAN . -One of the foremost Saxons of his day , though more noted ...
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... Royal and Noble Authors , " a Provençal form , which he took from a manuscript in the library of San Lorenzo at Florence . SEMI - SAXON WRITERS . As was natural from the miserable state of the Saxon nation immediately after the Conquest ...
... Royal and Noble Authors , " a Provençal form , which he took from a manuscript in the library of San Lorenzo at Florence . SEMI - SAXON WRITERS . As was natural from the miserable state of the Saxon nation immediately after the Conquest ...
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... Royal patronage . Visits Genoa . CHAPTER IV . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Born about 1328 A.D .......... Died 1400 A.D. Comptroller of Customs . Sunshine , Under Richard II . Flight of the poet . Abroad . In the Tower . Evening of life ...
... Royal patronage . Visits Genoa . CHAPTER IV . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Born about 1328 A.D .......... Died 1400 A.D. Comptroller of Customs . Sunshine , Under Richard II . Flight of the poet . Abroad . In the Tower . Evening of life ...
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