From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty AuthorsGrosset & Dunlap, 1898 - 317 pages |
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... court and the courts of law , from Parliament , school , and uni- versity . During all this time there were two languages spoken in England . Norman French was the birth- tongue of the upper classes and English of the lower . When the ...
... court and the courts of law , from Parliament , school , and uni- versity . During all this time there were two languages spoken in England . Norman French was the birth- tongue of the upper classes and English of the lower . When the ...
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... court . " • He who was before a rich king , and 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 ...
... court . " • He who was before a rich king , and 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 ...
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... court wrought the history of the Conquest . This national taste for decoration expressed itself not only in the ceremonious pomp of feast and chase and tourney , but likewise in literature . The most char- acteristic contribution of the ...
... court wrought the history of the Conquest . This national taste for decoration expressed itself not only in the ceremonious pomp of feast and chase and tourney , but likewise in literature . The most char- acteristic contribution of the ...
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... court of Henry I. and became afterward bishop of St. Asaph , produced in Latin a so - called " Historia Brito- num , ' " in which it was told how Brutus , the great- istoria grandson of Æneas , came to Britain , and founded there his ...
... court of Henry I. and became afterward bishop of St. Asaph , produced in Latin a so - called " Historia Brito- num , ' " in which it was told how Brutus , the great- istoria grandson of Æneas , came to Britain , and founded there his ...
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... court of Henry II . , in two French prose romances connected with it the church legend of the Sangreal , or holy cup , from which Christ had drunk at his last supper , and which Joseph of Arima- thea had afterward brought to England ...
... court of Henry II . , in two French prose romances connected with it the church legend of the Sangreal , or holy cup , from which Christ had drunk at his last supper , and which Joseph of Arima- thea had afterward brought to England ...
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