English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... story - telling , and none sooner than those of Provence , among whom a language and literature rapidly formed afterwards fell almost as rapidly into decline . Provence Songs of the Troubadours Origin of the Romance Languages . inherits ...
... story - telling , and none sooner than those of Provence , among whom a language and literature rapidly formed afterwards fell almost as rapidly into decline . Provence Songs of the Troubadours Origin of the Romance Languages . inherits ...
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... story - teller . But the monks in Southern Europe had to deal with a lively people who demanded more than this . Aquitaine and Provence had been free in the time of the Merovingians , and they fought afterwards on their northern border ...
... story - teller . But the monks in Southern Europe had to deal with a lively people who demanded more than this . Aquitaine and Provence had been free in the time of the Merovingians , and they fought afterwards on their northern border ...
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... story comes to the election of Bishop Walcher in 1082 . There is an account of the way in which Saint Cuthbert , appearing in a dream to one Ralph , sent by King William to compel tribute from Durham , beat the said Ralph with his ...
... story comes to the election of Bishop Walcher in 1082 . There is an account of the way in which Saint Cuthbert , appearing in a dream to one Ralph , sent by King William to compel tribute from Durham , beat the said Ralph with his ...
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... story of the early life of England , or as much of it as quiet English monks could learn , was truly told . * Its MS . is in the library of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge . † The best MS . of Marianus with Florence of Worcester's ...
... story of the early life of England , or as much of it as quiet English monks could learn , was truly told . * Its MS . is in the library of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge . † The best MS . of Marianus with Florence of Worcester's ...
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... story , or other movement of the fancy for expression of the truth , but with no attempt to colour facts to his opinions . His journal is , like every good old chronicle of its kind , a mine of historical anecdote , and 35 [ AD . 1085 ...
... story , or other movement of the fancy for expression of the truth , but with no attempt to colour facts to his opinions . His journal is , like every good old chronicle of its kind , a mine of historical anecdote , and 35 [ AD . 1085 ...
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