A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... chief temple . In character the Britons were impetuous , imaginative , full of curiosity , and quick to learn . Their early literature , which gathers about the names of legendary poets such as Merlin and Taliesin , shows a delicate ...
... chief temple . In character the Britons were impetuous , imaginative , full of curiosity , and quick to learn . Their early literature , which gathers about the names of legendary poets such as Merlin and Taliesin , shows a delicate ...
الصفحة 30
... chief thought that he would tell the noble deeds of the English ; what the men were named , and whence they came , who first had the Eng- lish land after the flood . Layamon began to journey wide over this land , and procured the noble ...
... chief thought that he would tell the noble deeds of the English ; what the men were named , and whence they came , who first had the Eng- lish land after the flood . Layamon began to journey wide over this land , and procured the noble ...
الصفحة 35
... chief theme . The Norman invasion has done its work . The conquerors have ceased to be such , for foreign wars and centuries of domestic intercourse have broken down the distinction between men of Norman and men of Saxon blood . The new ...
... chief theme . The Norman invasion has done its work . The conquerors have ceased to be such , for foreign wars and centuries of domestic intercourse have broken down the distinction between men of Norman and men of Saxon blood . The new ...
الصفحة 36
... chief facts in the history of the Norman - French up to the time of the conquest of England . Note the changes which took place in England by reason of the conquest , in architecture , in laws , in speech . Note the steps by which the ...
... chief facts in the history of the Norman - French up to the time of the conquest of England . Note the changes which took place in England by reason of the conquest , in architecture , in laws , in speech . Note the steps by which the ...
الصفحة 39
... chief sources of English wealth ; and to symbolize this fact , a crimson cushion stuffed with sheep shearings , the Woolsack , was used henceforth as the seat of the lord chancellor in the upper house of Parlia- ment . Early in Edward's ...
... chief sources of English wealth ; and to symbolize this fact , a crimson cushion stuffed with sheep shearings , the Woolsack , was used henceforth as the seat of the lord chancellor in the upper house of Parlia- ment . Early in Edward's ...
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