English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... Verse Layamon's Brut ... The Spirit of Layamon CHAPTER IX . - THE ORMULUM AND THE Ormin The Ormulum The Ancren Riwle ... RIWLE . Spirit of the Ancren Riwle CHAPTER X. - ENGLISH SONGS AND BALLADS - THE BARDS IN WALES . Songs of the ...
... Verse Layamon's Brut ... The Spirit of Layamon CHAPTER IX . - THE ORMULUM AND THE Ormin The Ormulum The Ancren Riwle ... RIWLE . Spirit of the Ancren Riwle CHAPTER X. - ENGLISH SONGS AND BALLADS - THE BARDS IN WALES . Songs of the ...
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... Verse Layamon's Brut ... ... The Spirit of Layamon CHAPTER IX . - THE ORMULUM AND THE RIWLE . Ormin The Ormulum The Ancren Riwle Spirit of the Ancren Riwle PAGE 202 , 203 204 204 204 , 205 205 206 207-211 ... 211 , 212 ... ANCREN 212 ...
... Verse Layamon's Brut ... ... The Spirit of Layamon CHAPTER IX . - THE ORMULUM AND THE RIWLE . Ormin The Ormulum The Ancren Riwle Spirit of the Ancren Riwle PAGE 202 , 203 204 204 204 , 205 205 206 207-211 ... 211 , 212 ... ANCREN 212 ...
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... verse has come down to us were Ebles of Ventadour and his feudal lord , a Count of Poitou , who was William IX . , Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou , born in the year 1071 , and but eighteen years old at the time of the death of ...
... verse has come down to us were Ebles of Ventadour and his feudal lord , a Count of Poitou , who was William IX . , Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou , born in the year 1071 , and but eighteen years old at the time of the death of ...
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... verses , but there was no comedy or tragedy , no epic sustaining vigorously some high argument of God or man . An insatiable curiosity for knowledge and a lively humour produced , in the form of didactic poems , treatises on Grammar ...
... verses , but there was no comedy or tragedy , no epic sustaining vigorously some high argument of God or man . An insatiable curiosity for knowledge and a lively humour produced , in the form of didactic poems , treatises on Grammar ...
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... verse a scientific treatise on the Astronomy of the Calendar under the name of " Livre des Creatures " and a " Bestiary , " in which , following the track of the " Physiologus " that yielded our First - English poems of the " Whale ...
... verse a scientific treatise on the Astronomy of the Calendar under the name of " Livre des Creatures " and a " Bestiary , " in which , following the track of the " Physiologus " that yielded our First - English poems of the " Whale ...
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