English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... poor and ignorant , glad to escape from home oppres- sion . These were a wild body by themselves , who called their chief Tafur , which was Turkish for King of the Beg- gars . The Turks were then divided among themselves , and were old ...
... poor and ignorant , glad to escape from home oppres- sion . These were a wild body by themselves , who called their chief Tafur , which was Turkish for King of the Beg- gars . The Turks were then divided among themselves , and were old ...
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... poor Cistercians of Pontigny , he ate for a time pulse , privately introduced into the show of delicate food , with which , that he might keep his fasting secret , he maintained his dignity before the brethren . But the unwholesome diet ...
... poor Cistercians of Pontigny , he ate for a time pulse , privately introduced into the show of delicate food , with which , that he might keep his fasting secret , he maintained his dignity before the brethren . But the unwholesome diet ...
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... poor monk into exile , travelling a French road painfully on foot , Becket is said to have betrayed himself by the sportsman's interest he displayed in a hawk carried by . At Pontigny the Bishop of Poitiers had to urge on him repeatedly ...
... poor monk into exile , travelling a French road painfully on foot , Becket is said to have betrayed himself by the sportsman's interest he displayed in a hawk carried by . At Pontigny the Bishop of Poitiers had to urge on him repeatedly ...
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... poor creature , Peter de Leia , Prior of Wenlock , a black monk of the Cluniac order , who by his rules ought never to have assumed a mitre . Gerald troubled him much with instructions as to the right way of wearing it , and finding ...
... poor creature , Peter de Leia , Prior of Wenlock , a black monk of the Cluniac order , who by his rules ought never to have assumed a mitre . Gerald troubled him much with instructions as to the right way of wearing it , and finding ...
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... poor people who had been robbed , Archdeacon Osbert , his master and warden , answered for him , and said , ' If my lord were to do what you require he would not have a tail left of all his cows at St. Kevan . ' ' What ! ' said I ...
... poor people who had been robbed , Archdeacon Osbert , his master and warden , answered for him , and said , ' If my lord were to do what you require he would not have a tail left of all his cows at St. Kevan . ' ' What ! ' said I ...
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