A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and sons, 1880 |
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... scenes of vanished author - life , and to trace the chief steps by which a green leaf has become a printed volume . For , to know something of the dress our books have worn at various times , and the stuff of which the older ones were ...
... scenes of vanished author - life , and to trace the chief steps by which a green leaf has become a printed volume . For , to know something of the dress our books have worn at various times , and the stuff of which the older ones were ...
18. oldal
... scene of triumph came . His touch on the " wood of joy " had power alike to rouse the fiery passions of the warriors or soothe their ruffled moods . He related the deeds of dead heroes , or sung the praise of their living descendants ...
... scene of triumph came . His touch on the " wood of joy " had power alike to rouse the fiery passions of the warriors or soothe their ruffled moods . He related the deeds of dead heroes , or sung the praise of their living descendants ...
22. oldal
... scenes they described , it is perhaps the most valuable inheritance we have received from the native literature of our Saxon forefathers . A romance founded on the story of Apollonius of Tyre , —King Alfred's Will , -some Laws and ...
... scenes they described , it is perhaps the most valuable inheritance we have received from the native literature of our Saxon forefathers . A romance founded on the story of Apollonius of Tyre , —King Alfred's Will , -some Laws and ...
40. oldal
... scenes , in which the old minstrel was most at home , to the quiet gloom of monastic life , and see what literary work went on within those thick oaken doors , studded with heavy nails , whose hinges creaked out but a churlish welcome ...
... scenes , in which the old minstrel was most at home , to the quiet gloom of monastic life , and see what literary work went on within those thick oaken doors , studded with heavy nails , whose hinges creaked out but a churlish welcome ...
56. oldal
... scenes at the shrine , the tales of the return , the wind - up supper , are all untold . Two of the stories -the Tale of Melibeus and the Persones Tale - are in prose , and afford a very favourable specimen of Chaucer's power in that ...
... scenes at the shrine , the tales of the return , the wind - up supper , are all untold . Two of the stories -the Tale of Melibeus and the Persones Tale - are in prose , and afford a very favourable specimen of Chaucer's power in that ...
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