A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 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 1882. 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 1882. 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- 6 ter . It is finished now . ' " 6 reply , all is finished now . ' and died . It is to that scene ...
... wrote , and when evening fell , There is yet one sentence unwritten , dear master , ' said the youth . Write it quickly , ' said the mas- 6 ter . It is finished now . ' " 6 reply , all is finished now . ' and died . It is to that scene ...
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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 legends ...
... 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 legends ...
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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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