Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 1Robert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1854 - Authors, English |
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... called the Venerable Bede , who may be allowed to stand at the head of the class . He seems to have spent a modest studious life , unche- quered by incident of any kind , at the monastery of Wearmouth , where he died in 735 . Ilis works ...
... called the Venerable Bede , who may be allowed to stand at the head of the class . He seems to have spent a modest studious life , unche- quered by incident of any kind , at the monastery of Wearmouth , where he died in 735 . Ilis works ...
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... called from that circumstance ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER , and who lived during the reigns of Henry III . and Ed- ward I. He wrote , in long rhymed lines ( Alexan- drines ) , a history of England from the imaginary Brutus to his own time ...
... called from that circumstance ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER , and who lived during the reigns of Henry III . and Ed- ward I. He wrote , in long rhymed lines ( Alexan- drines ) , a history of England from the imaginary Brutus to his own time ...
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... called it Fosse ; Throughout the land it goes to Scoss . It begins at Tottenness , And ends unto Catheness . Another street ordained he , And goes to Wales to Saint Davy . * * Two causeways o'er the lon 1 o - bread ,? That men o'er ...
... called it Fosse ; Throughout the land it goes to Scoss . It begins at Tottenness , And ends unto Catheness . Another street ordained he , And goes to Wales to Saint Davy . * * Two causeways o'er the lon 1 o - bread ,? That men o'er ...
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... called forth by the transient gleam of a temporary sunshine , are nipped by frosts and torn by tempests . ' Of the poor have they no pity : and that is her charity ! And they letten hem as lords , her lands lie so broad . Ac there shall ...
... called forth by the transient gleam of a temporary sunshine , are nipped by frosts and torn by tempests . ' Of the poor have they no pity : and that is her charity ! And they letten hem as lords , her lands lie so broad . Ac there shall ...
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... called were . He led with radure sae his land , In all time that he was regnand , That nane durst well withstand his will , All winning bowsome to be him till . Wyntoun has been included in this section of our literary history , because ...
... called were . He led with radure sae his land , In all time that he was regnand , That nane durst well withstand his will , All winning bowsome to be him till . Wyntoun has been included in this section of our literary history , because ...
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