English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... METRICAL ROMANCE . English Metrical Romances Dano - Saxon Romance King Horn ... ... ... The Lay of Havelok the Dane Guy of Warwick Minstrels ... Sir Gawayne Huchowne ... ... Thomas of Erceldoune ... PAGE 254 255 255 255 , 256 256 257 ...
... METRICAL ROMANCE . English Metrical Romances Dano - Saxon Romance King Horn ... ... ... The Lay of Havelok the Dane Guy of Warwick Minstrels ... Sir Gawayne Huchowne ... ... Thomas of Erceldoune ... PAGE 254 255 255 255 , 256 256 257 ...
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... METRICAL ROMANCE . English Metrical Romances Dano - Saxon Romance King Horn ... ... The Lay of Havelok the Dane Guy of Warwick Minstrels ... Sir Gawayne Huchowne ... ... Thomas of Erceldoune : 264 264 264 , 265 265-276 276 276 , 277 277 ...
... METRICAL ROMANCE . English Metrical Romances Dano - Saxon Romance King Horn ... ... The Lay of Havelok the Dane Guy of Warwick Minstrels ... Sir Gawayne Huchowne ... ... Thomas of Erceldoune : 264 264 264 , 265 265-276 276 276 , 277 277 ...
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... pantomime and represented in their own churches , incidents of sacred writ , applied dances and choruses to honour of the saints , and supplied metrical legends of saints as wonderful as any of the heathen 14 [ A.D. 800 ENGLISH WRITERS .
... pantomime and represented in their own churches , incidents of sacred writ , applied dances and choruses to honour of the saints , and supplied metrical legends of saints as wonderful as any of the heathen 14 [ A.D. 800 ENGLISH WRITERS .
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... metrical remnants of Barbour and Robert of Gloucester ( save that it is written in prose ) than the steady , the more calm and philosophical work to which it forms so valuable an appendage . But at the same time it carries with it the ...
... metrical remnants of Barbour and Robert of Gloucester ( save that it is written in prose ) than the steady , the more calm and philosophical work to which it forms so valuable an appendage . But at the same time it carries with it the ...
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... metrical History of Anglo- Saxon Kings . A better translation of Geoffrey of Mon- mouth's book by Wace caused that of Gaimar to fall out of request , and no copies of it are now known to be extant . But of his Chronicle of Anglo - Saxon ...
... metrical History of Anglo- Saxon Kings . A better translation of Geoffrey of Mon- mouth's book by Wace caused that of Gaimar to fall out of request , and no copies of it are now known to be extant . But of his Chronicle of Anglo - Saxon ...
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