From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty AuthorsGrosset & Dunlap, 1898 - 317 pages |
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... lord of many a land , he had not then of all his land but a piece of seven feet . Likewise he was a very stark man and a terrible , so that one durst do nothing against his will . . . Among other things is not to be forgotten the good ...
... lord of many a land , he had not then of all his land but a piece of seven feet . Likewise he was a very stark man and a terrible , so that one durst do nothing against his will . . . Among other things is not to be forgotten the good ...
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... Lord Rivers , a brother - in - law of Edward IV . The list of books printed by Caxton is interesting , as showing the Issues of taste of the time , since he naturally selected what was most in demand . The list shows that manuals of ...
... Lord Rivers , a brother - in - law of Edward IV . The list of books printed by Caxton is interesting , as showing the Issues of taste of the time , since he naturally selected what was most in demand . The list shows that manuals of ...
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... Lord Berners's translation of Froissart . turesque charm of Malory's style has been improved upon . The episode ... Lord Berners , of that most brilliant of the French chroniclers , Chaucer's contemporary , Sir John Froissart . Lord ...
... Lord Berners's translation of Froissart . turesque charm of Malory's style has been improved upon . The episode ... Lord Berners , of that most brilliant of the French chroniclers , Chaucer's contemporary , Sir John Froissart . Lord ...
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... lords of the marches supplied many traditions of heroism , like those cele- brated in the old poem of " The Battle of Otterbourne , " and in " The Hunting of the Cheviot , " or " Chevy Chase , " already mentioned . Some of these are ...
... lords of the marches supplied many traditions of heroism , like those cele- brated in the old poem of " The Battle of Otterbourne , " and in " The Hunting of the Cheviot , " or " Chevy Chase , " already mentioned . Some of these are ...
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... Lord Buckhurst , in 1563 to a collection of narrative poems called " The Mirrour for Magistrates . " The whole series was the work of many hands , modeled upon Lydgate's " Falls of Princes " . ( taken from Boccaccio ) , and was designed ...
... Lord Buckhurst , in 1563 to a collection of narrative poems called " The Mirrour for Magistrates . " The whole series was the work of many hands , modeled upon Lydgate's " Falls of Princes " . ( taken from Boccaccio ) , and was designed ...
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