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... LITERATURE ' AND ' AMERICAN LITERATURE ' ; ETC. ETC. О LONDON : LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1878 . All rights reserved . 1878 , Oct. 7 . Lane Cund . C PREFACE.
... LITERATURE ' AND ' AMERICAN LITERATURE ' ; ETC. ETC. О LONDON : LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1878 . All rights reserved . 1878 , Oct. 7 . Lane Cund . C PREFACE.
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... literature . They represent , therefore , the laws of construction observed during the last three centuries , and many excerpts from the writings of earlier times are given . One of the writer's aims is to direct attention to works in ...
... literature . They represent , therefore , the laws of construction observed during the last three centuries , and many excerpts from the writings of earlier times are given . One of the writer's aims is to direct attention to works in ...
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... literature . 450-1100 . About a hundred years after the birth of Christ , the greater portion of that part of Britain now called England was governed by a Roman army . It is believed that , at that time , almost all the tribes dwelling ...
... literature . 450-1100 . About a hundred years after the birth of Christ , the greater portion of that part of Britain now called England was governed by a Roman army . It is believed that , at that time , almost all the tribes dwelling ...
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... literature : -Gothic , English , Old Saxon , Frisian , Icelandic , Old High German , and Middle High German . Some considerable parts have been preserved of a Gothic translation of the Bible , made by Bishop ULFILAS , who lived ( in the ...
... literature : -Gothic , English , Old Saxon , Frisian , Icelandic , Old High German , and Middle High German . Some considerable parts have been preserved of a Gothic translation of the Bible , made by Bishop ULFILAS , who lived ( in the ...
Side 7
... literature , English stands next to Gothic . Our oldest epic poem , ' Beowulf , ' was reconstructed and edited ( most probably in England ) , some time before the tenth century ; but the heathen ballads on which it is founded belong to ...
... literature , English stands next to Gothic . Our oldest epic poem , ' Beowulf , ' was reconstructed and edited ( most probably in England ) , some time before the tenth century ; but the heathen ballads on which it is founded belong to ...
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