Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... tion , 494 POETS . Translations of the Ancient Poets , 494 Spenser and Milton , 535 Lampoon , 497 For my Own Monument , 536 Dryden's Translation of Virgil , 497 Epitaph Extempore , 536 History and Biography , 498 An Epitaph , 536 SIR ...
... tion , 494 POETS . Translations of the Ancient Poets , 494 Spenser and Milton , 535 Lampoon , 497 For my Own Monument , 536 Dryden's Translation of Virgil , 497 Epitaph Extempore , 536 History and Biography , 498 An Epitaph , 536 SIR ...
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... tion . In the morning , he hastened to the town- reeve , or bailiff , of Whitby , who carried him before the Abbess Hilda ; and there , in the presence of some of the learned men of the place , he told his story , and they were all of ...
... tion . In the morning , he hastened to the town- reeve , or bailiff , of Whitby , who carried him before the Abbess Hilda ; and there , in the presence of some of the learned men of the place , he told his story , and they were all of ...
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... tion of a few French for the present Saxon words was now necessary to produce a resemblance to that Anglo - Norman , or English , of which we possess a few specimens , supposed to have been written in the early part of the thirteenth ...
... tion of a few French for the present Saxon words was now necessary to produce a resemblance to that Anglo - Norman , or English , of which we possess a few specimens , supposed to have been written in the early part of the thirteenth ...
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... tion in Europe has been traced to the most opposite quarters ; namely , to the Arabians and to the Scan- dinavians . It has also been disputed , whether a politer kind of poetical literature was first culti- vated in Normandy or in ...
... tion in Europe has been traced to the most opposite quarters ; namely , to the Arabians and to the Scan- dinavians . It has also been disputed , whether a politer kind of poetical literature was first culti- vated in Normandy or in ...
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... tion of the middle or latter part of the thirteenth century . But the soundness of Sir Walter's theory is now generally denied . Another English romance , the Life of Alexander the Great , was attributed by Mr Warton to Adam Davie ...
... tion of the middle or latter part of the thirteenth century . But the soundness of Sir Walter's theory is now generally denied . Another English romance , the Life of Alexander the Great , was attributed by Mr Warton to Adam Davie ...
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