English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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Pagina 37
... ( called " regular " clergy , because following the rule of life of their various orders , such as the Benedictines and Cistercians ; see Appendix II ) ; and the friars ( notably the Franciscans , founded by St. Francis of Assisi , called ...
... ( called " regular " clergy , because following the rule of life of their various orders , such as the Benedictines and Cistercians ; see Appendix II ) ; and the friars ( notably the Franciscans , founded by St. Francis of Assisi , called ...
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... ( called in the poem Colin Clout ) , his friends , and more public matters . In several eclogues , as these short pastoral poems are called , occur references to Rosalind , " a gentlewoman of no mean house , " whom Colin fell in love with ...
... ( called in the poem Colin Clout ) , his friends , and more public matters . In several eclogues , as these short pastoral poems are called , occur references to Rosalind , " a gentlewoman of no mean house , " whom Colin fell in love with ...
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... called him " the most unhappy genius in history " ; " Thinking of him , ” Thackeray concluded , “ is like thinking of an empire fall- ing . " Swift happened to be born and educated in Ire- I : To age 32 . land , ( Trinity College ...
... called him " the most unhappy genius in history " ; " Thinking of him , ” Thackeray concluded , “ is like thinking of an empire fall- ing . " Swift happened to be born and educated in Ire- I : To age 32 . land , ( Trinity College ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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