English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... original genius . It de- lighted him to hear Anselm , who was seldom silent , talk and philosophise with a didactic fancy . Besides writing the Life of Anselm , Eadmer gathered a book of the Similitudes of St. Anselm , a book of ...
... original genius . It de- lighted him to hear Anselm , who was seldom silent , talk and philosophise with a didactic fancy . Besides writing the Life of Anselm , Eadmer gathered a book of the Similitudes of St. Anselm , a book of ...
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... original dialects of those countries gave way , more or less completely , to the language of the con- querors . In this country , Rome had only outposts among a hostile British population , and did not remain long enough to come into ...
... original dialects of those countries gave way , more or less completely , to the language of the con- querors . In this country , Rome had only outposts among a hostile British population , and did not remain long enough to come into ...
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... original . There is superstition and idolatry in the case ; and we dislike the entertainment because we dislike the reason of its institu- tion . " * Again , he says , " the design is notably suited to the patronage of Bacchus and Venus ...
... original . There is superstition and idolatry in the case ; and we dislike the entertainment because we dislike the reason of its institu- tion . " * Again , he says , " the design is notably suited to the patronage of Bacchus and Venus ...
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... original of Robert Borron's introductory romance of the Saint Graal , and certainly Lancelot of the Lake , the Quest of the Saint Graal , and the Mort Artus . Unassuming as Chaucer , and , before Chaucer , the man of highest genius in ...
... original of Robert Borron's introductory romance of the Saint Graal , and certainly Lancelot of the Lake , the Quest of the Saint Graal , and the Mort Artus . Unassuming as Chaucer , and , before Chaucer , the man of highest genius in ...
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... original to which , of some chief romances , all the MSS . refer . The romances , he thinks , must have been compiled in the following order , and the first of them at least twenty years after the appearance of Geoffrey of Monmouth's ...
... original to which , of some chief romances , all the MSS . refer . The romances , he thinks , must have been compiled in the following order , and the first of them at least twenty years after the appearance of Geoffrey of Monmouth's ...
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