English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... CENTURY . PAGE From the North to the South ... Lanfranc ... Anselm Eadmer ... ... Early Arabian Influence ... Songs of the Troubadours . Origin of the Romance Languages ... English and Norman - French . ... ... The Langue d'Oc and ...
... CENTURY . PAGE From the North to the South ... Lanfranc ... Anselm Eadmer ... ... Early Arabian Influence ... Songs of the Troubadours . Origin of the Romance Languages ... English and Norman - French . ... ... The Langue d'Oc and ...
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... CENTURY . IN tracing the roots of our literature we find that they stretch far across Europe : northward we follow them to Iceland , southward to Provence and to the lands lying beyond the Mediterranean yet farther south . From the ...
... CENTURY . IN tracing the roots of our literature we find that they stretch far across Europe : northward we follow them to Iceland , southward to Provence and to the lands lying beyond the Mediterranean yet farther south . From the ...
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... century arts and letters followed the conquests of a people which had begun its career as a few tribes of simple and hardy horsemen and lancebearers , to one of whom a handful of dates was a sufficient dinner . The highest forms of ...
... century arts and letters followed the conquests of a people which had begun its career as a few tribes of simple and hardy horsemen and lancebearers , to one of whom a handful of dates was a sufficient dinner . The highest forms of ...
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... century . To the Arabian influence was partly owing the peculiar reverence for Aristotle in the universities of Europe before the Reformation , which was ushered in among the learned by outpost skirmishes between Aristotelians and ...
... century . To the Arabian influence was partly owing the peculiar reverence for Aristotle in the universities of Europe before the Reformation , which was ushered in among the learned by outpost skirmishes between Aristotelians and ...
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... centuries . The Teutonic armies that were usually - as in the Lombard invasion of Italy - in fact , national hordes , vast ... century , had their capital at Toulouse , and extended their power from the Pyrenees to the banks of the Loire ...
... centuries . The Teutonic armies that were usually - as in the Lombard invasion of Italy - in fact , national hordes , vast ... century , had their capital at Toulouse , and extended their power from the Pyrenees to the banks of the Loire ...
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