English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... Record and Reflection Retrospect ... Record precedes Reflection Nature of the First Records ... ... Influence of Race ... Christianity . Rise of a New Literature of Reflection ... Healthy Conflict of Opinion Lives of Saints The Church ...
... Record and Reflection Retrospect ... Record precedes Reflection Nature of the First Records ... ... Influence of Race ... Christianity . Rise of a New Literature of Reflection ... Healthy Conflict of Opinion Lives of Saints The Church ...
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... record as the clever and honest monk could make it , are the Archbishops of Canterbury , Lanfranc , Anselm , and Ralph ; Anselm , however , is the great king of the history , beginning to reign before the end of the first book , and ...
... record as the clever and honest monk could make it , are the Archbishops of Canterbury , Lanfranc , Anselm , and Ralph ; Anselm , however , is the great king of the history , beginning to reign before the end of the first book , and ...
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... record of the home - keeping wit of Osbern of Canterbury , who tells that he saw Canterbury Cathedral burnt in the year 1070. It was his Osbern . amusement to translate the Lives of native saints from First - English into a Latin of ...
... record of the home - keeping wit of Osbern of Canterbury , who tells that he saw Canterbury Cathedral burnt in the year 1070. It was his Osbern . amusement to translate the Lives of native saints from First - English into a Latin of ...
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... record would not fill more than about three columns of a modern English daily newspaper . If we could imagine that excel- lent modern institution carried back , with all its machinery , by a bold anachronism , into the year 1103 , we ...
... record would not fill more than about three columns of a modern English daily newspaper . If we could imagine that excel- lent modern institution carried back , with all its machinery , by a bold anachronism , into the year 1103 , we ...
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... records as in worshipping them simply as things ancient and difficult of study . When they had all the life in them — for which only , so far as we can seize upon it , they have value to us now -- assuredly it was not mould of antiquity ...
... records as in worshipping them simply as things ancient and difficult of study . When they had all the life in them — for which only , so far as we can seize upon it , they have value to us now -- assuredly it was not mould of antiquity ...
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