The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Harper, 1851 - 576 pages |
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... Writers of Great Britain , Burnett's Specimens of English Prose Writers , Hallam's Literature of the Fifteenth , Sixteenth , and Seventeenth Centuries , and Chambers ' Cyclopædia of English Literature . He has also made liberal use of ...
... Writers of Great Britain , Burnett's Specimens of English Prose Writers , Hallam's Literature of the Fifteenth , Sixteenth , and Seventeenth Centuries , and Chambers ' Cyclopædia of English Literature . He has also made liberal use of ...
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... WRITERS - MAISTRE WACE - THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LAN- GUAGE - RHYMING CHRONICLES - LAYAMON - ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER ... writer . He was the son of Fingal , a Caledonian chief , and having sur- vived all the companions of his youth ...
... WRITERS - MAISTRE WACE - THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LAN- GUAGE - RHYMING CHRONICLES - LAYAMON - ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER ... writer . He was the son of Fingal , a Caledonian chief , and having sur- vived all the companions of his youth ...
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... writer , deserves to be styled the poetry of the heart -a heart penetrated with noble sentiments , and with sublime and tender passions ; a heart that glows and kindles the fancy ; a heart that is full to overflowing , and pours its ...
... writer , deserves to be styled the poetry of the heart -a heart penetrated with noble sentiments , and with sublime and tender passions ; a heart that glows and kindles the fancy ; a heart that is full to overflowing , and pours its ...
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... writer himself , and also of the productions of his pen , so much uncertainty prevails that no farther notice of him is deemed necessary . ST . COLUMBANUS , another writer of the same period , and also a man of much greater genius and ...
... writer himself , and also of the productions of his pen , so much uncertainty prevails that no farther notice of him is deemed necessary . ST . COLUMBANUS , another writer of the same period , and also a man of much greater genius and ...
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... writers to the celebrated John of Beverly , and the vene- rable Bede . JOHN OF BEVERLY was descended from a noble family , and was born at Harpham in Northumberland , near the middle of the seventh century . The evidence of genius which ...
... writers to the celebrated John of Beverly , and the vene- rable Bede . JOHN OF BEVERLY was descended from a noble family , and was born at Harpham in Northumberland , near the middle of the seventh century . The evidence of genius which ...
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