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... CENTURY . 499 SCOTT , THE TALISMAN 508 BYRON , THE PRISONER OF CHILLON 526 Wordsworth , TINTERN ABBEY AND INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY 548 TENNYSON , ELAINE . • 575 ENGLISH LITERATURE . INTRODUCTION . HISTORY treats chiefly of the viii ...
... CENTURY . 499 SCOTT , THE TALISMAN 508 BYRON , THE PRISONER OF CHILLON 526 Wordsworth , TINTERN ABBEY AND INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY 548 TENNYSON , ELAINE . • 575 ENGLISH LITERATURE . INTRODUCTION . HISTORY treats chiefly of the viii ...
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... century , and extends through the long period of twelve hundred years to the present time . Its course has been an ... centuries of our era , the invasion by the Angles , Saxons , and Jutes Teutonic tribes that inhabited Schleswig ...
... century , and extends through the long period of twelve hundred years to the present time . Its course has been an ... centuries of our era , the invasion by the Angles , Saxons , and Jutes Teutonic tribes that inhabited Schleswig ...
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... century , but the deeds it celebrates belong to a much earlier period . It possesses great value , not only for philology , but also for history , since it portrays the manners and customs of our Anglo - Saxon forefathers before they ...
... century , but the deeds it celebrates belong to a much earlier period . It possesses great value , not only for philology , but also for history , since it portrays the manners and customs of our Anglo - Saxon forefathers before they ...
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... century . He has with justice . been called " the Milton of our forefathers ; " and his poems are strongly suggestive of " Paradise Lost . " He seems to have been a laborer on the lands attached to the monas- tery of St. Hilda at Whitby ...
... century . He has with justice . been called " the Milton of our forefathers ; " and his poems are strongly suggestive of " Paradise Lost . " He seems to have been a laborer on the lands attached to the monas- tery of St. Hilda at Whitby ...
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... century before had furnished Europe with some of its most emi- nent scholars had fallen into decay . " To so low a depth has learning fallen among the English nation , " he says , " that there have been very few on this side of the Hum ...
... century before had furnished Europe with some of its most emi- nent scholars had fallen into decay . " To so low a depth has learning fallen among the English nation , " he says , " that there have been very few on this side of the Hum ...
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