A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 sider |
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... afterward taxes on arable and on pasture land , and customs at the ports , proscribed Druidism , abolished tattooing , made cremation general , quickened agriculture , and exported corn . By 420 A.D. , the Roman legions are Brief ...
... afterward taxes on arable and on pasture land , and customs at the ports , proscribed Druidism , abolished tattooing , made cremation general , quickened agriculture , and exported corn . By 420 A.D. , the Roman legions are Brief ...
Side 21
... afterward crimes and injuries could be expiated with money . In Elfred's time , death was the punishment for murder and for some other crimes . Christianity introduced from Rome , 597 A.D. , by Augustine , who became first Archbishop of ...
... afterward crimes and injuries could be expiated with money . In Elfred's time , death was the punishment for murder and for some other crimes . Christianity introduced from Rome , 597 A.D. , by Augustine , who became first Archbishop of ...
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... afterwards into English literature and had a great influence upon it . The whole tale of King Arthur , of which English poetry and even English prose is so full , was a British tale . THE ENGLISH * TONGUE . Of the language in which our ...
... afterwards into English literature and had a great influence upon it . The whole tale of King Arthur , of which English poetry and even English prose is so full , was a British tale . THE ENGLISH * TONGUE . Of the language in which our ...
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... afterwards Abbot of Malmesbury , united the song - maker to the religious poet . He was a skilled musician , and it is said that he had not his equal in the making or sing- ing of English verse . His songs were popular in King Alfred's ...
... afterwards Abbot of Malmesbury , united the song - maker to the religious poet . He was a skilled musician , and it is said that he had not his equal in the making or sing- ing of English verse . His songs were popular in King Alfred's ...
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... afterwards edited by another Elfric , may be called the first English - Latin dictionary . But this revival had no sooner begun to take root than the North- men came again in force upon the land and conquered it . During the long ...
... afterwards edited by another Elfric , may be called the first English - Latin dictionary . But this revival had no sooner begun to take root than the North- men came again in force upon the land and conquered it . During the long ...
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