English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... Oxford . Another MS . , beautifully written at the end of the twelfth century , is in the library of Lambeth Palace . It ends at the year 1131. A later MS . is in the Bodleian Library , and another , which contains the continuation to ...
... Oxford . Another MS . , beautifully written at the end of the twelfth century , is in the library of Lambeth Palace . It ends at the year 1131. A later MS . is in the Bodleian Library , and another , which contains the continuation to ...
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... Oxford Professorships in Geometry and Astronomy which bear his name . William of Malmes- bury's His- tory of English Pre- lates . The fifth book of the History of English Prelates , which remains only in one MS . , is in Dean Gale's ...
... Oxford Professorships in Geometry and Astronomy which bear his name . William of Malmes- bury's His- tory of English Pre- lates . The fifth book of the History of English Prelates , which remains only in one MS . , is in Dean Gale's ...
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... Oxford to Wallingford , when in Oxford she was besieged closely by Stephen and her capture seemed inevitable , is the last incident recorded in this chronicle ; and its last sentence says , in relation to the Empress's escape , " this I ...
... Oxford to Wallingford , when in Oxford she was besieged closely by Stephen and her capture seemed inevitable , is the last incident recorded in this chronicle ; and its last sentence says , in relation to the Empress's escape , " this I ...
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... Oxford ; from the dungeon of the captive king we hasten to witness the escape of the Empress during all the severi- ties of the December night . It is one stirring series of events of personal and individual interest , and in this ...
... Oxford ; from the dungeon of the captive king we hasten to witness the escape of the Empress during all the severi- ties of the December night . It is one stirring series of events of personal and individual interest , and in this ...
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... Oxford - not Walter Map , who was not archdeacon till 1196 , but Walter Calenius , who had been archdeacon in IIIO , and was archdeacon still in 1147 . Calenius offered the curious MS . to him when he was studying the Kings of Britain ...
... Oxford - not Walter Map , who was not archdeacon till 1196 , but Walter Calenius , who had been archdeacon in IIIO , and was archdeacon still in 1147 . Calenius offered the curious MS . to him when he was studying the Kings of Britain ...
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