Cyclopaedia 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 ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1871 |
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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 . His 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 . His 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 Sairt Davy . * Two causeways o'er the lon 1 o - bread , That men o'er - thort ...
... 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 Sairt Davy . * Two causeways o'er the lon 1 o - bread , That men o'er - thort ...
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... called , is to be faintly discovered about the middle of the thirteenth centary , when Henry III . sat on the English throne , and Alexander II . on that of Scotland . A consider- able variety of examples will be found in the volumes of ...
... called , is to be faintly discovered about the middle of the thirteenth centary , when Henry III . sat on the English throne , and Alexander II . on that of Scotland . A consider- able variety of examples will be found in the volumes of ...
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... called forth by the transient gleam of a temporary sunshine , are nipped by frosts and torn by tempests . ' In many places there they be parsons by hemself at ease ; Of the poor have they no pity : and that is her charity ! And they ...
... called forth by the transient gleam of a temporary sunshine , are nipped by frosts and torn by tempests . ' In many places there they be parsons by hemself at ease ; Of the poor have they no pity : and that is her charity ! And they ...
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