Text-book on English Literature ...Maynard, Merrill & Company, 1899 - 485 páginas |
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... wrote down in good prose or beautiful poetry in the English language . The story is a long one . It begins about the year 670 , and it is still going on in the year 1890. Into this book , then , is to be put the story of 1,200 years ...
... wrote down in good prose or beautiful poetry in the English language . The story is a long one . It begins about the year 670 , and it is still going on in the year 1890. Into this book , then , is to be put the story of 1,200 years ...
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... wrote , and when evening fell , ' There is yet one sentence unwritten , dear master , ' said the youth . Write it quickly , ' said the mas- Thou sayest truth , ' was the He sang the 6 " 6 ter . It is finished now . ' reply , all is ...
... wrote , and when evening fell , ' There is yet one sentence unwritten , dear master , ' said the youth . Write it quickly , ' said the mas- Thou sayest truth , ' was the He sang the 6 " 6 ter . It is finished now . ' reply , all is ...
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... wrote Ælfred in later days , I have striven to live worthily . ' He longed , when death overtook him , to leave to the men that come after a remembrance of me in good works . ' The aim has been more than fulfilled . The memory of the ...
... wrote Ælfred in later days , I have striven to live worthily . ' He longed , when death overtook him , to leave to the men that come after a remembrance of me in good works . ' The aim has been more than fulfilled . The memory of the ...
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... wrote religious poems . The Cur- sor Mundi , written about 1320 , and thought ' the best book of all ' by men of that time , was a metrical version of the Old and the New Testament , interspersed , as was the Handlyng Sinne , with ...
... wrote religious poems . The Cur- sor Mundi , written about 1320 , and thought ' the best book of all ' by men of that time , was a metrical version of the Old and the New Testament , interspersed , as was the Handlyng Sinne , with ...
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... wrote at Bristol his last poem , The Deposition of Richard II . , and then died , prob- ably in 1400 . He paints his portrait as he was when he lived in Cornhill , a tall , gaunt figure , whom men called Long Will ; clothed in the black ...
... wrote at Bristol his last poem , The Deposition of Richard II . , and then died , prob- ably in 1400 . He paints his portrait as he was when he lived in Cornhill , a tall , gaunt figure , whom men called Long Will ; clothed in the black ...
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