The History of England: The history of England: middle ages. In five volumesLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839 |
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... CHARACTER OF RICHARD THE THIRD- THE REIGN OF HENRY THE SEVENTH , AND THE LITERARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , ORME , BROWN , GREEN , AND LONGMANS . LONDON : Printed by Manning and Mason , Ivy Lane 1839 .
... CHARACTER OF RICHARD THE THIRD- THE REIGN OF HENRY THE SEVENTH , AND THE LITERARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , ORME , BROWN , GREEN , AND LONGMANS . LONDON : Printed by Manning and Mason , Ivy Lane 1839 .
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Sharon Turner. BOOK VI . THE LITERARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND . CHAP . I. Review of the Causes of the Decline of Literature before the Norman Conquest . ENGLAND . THE general intellectual superiority of modern LITERARY Europe over the ancient ...
Sharon Turner. BOOK VI . THE LITERARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND . CHAP . I. Review of the Causes of the Decline of Literature before the Norman Conquest . ENGLAND . THE general intellectual superiority of modern LITERARY Europe over the ancient ...
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... LITERARY ners , and new subjects , and therefore that the ex- clusive sovereignty of the literature of Rome should expire , as well as its political empire . The dark ages of Europe will then appear to have been an awful but salutary ...
... LITERARY ners , and new subjects , and therefore that the ex- clusive sovereignty of the literature of Rome should expire , as well as its political empire . The dark ages of Europe will then appear to have been an awful but salutary ...
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... evil was their misfortune , not their fault . They met with no teachers to inform them ; no living examples to imitate ; no intellectual merit VI . LITERARY BOOK around them to respect or to I 2 DURING THE MIDDLE AGES . 115.
... evil was their misfortune , not their fault . They met with no teachers to inform them ; no living examples to imitate ; no intellectual merit VI . LITERARY BOOK around them to respect or to I 2 DURING THE MIDDLE AGES . 115.
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... literary excellence of the Romans had been as brief as sudden . It came upon them like a flood , from their conquest of Greece ; ' but it passed as rapidly away . From Ennius to Quintilian , it lasted little more than three centuries ...
... literary excellence of the Romans had been as brief as sudden . It came upon them like a flood , from their conquest of Greece ; ' but it passed as rapidly away . From Ennius to Quintilian , it lasted little more than three centuries ...
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Página 101 - Certainly his times for good commonwealth's laws did excel. So as he may justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation, after king Edward the First: for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy; after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.
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Página 65 - Tower, and buried by him in some place which, by means of the priest's death soon after, could not be known. Thus much was then delivered abroad, to be the effect of those examinations ; but the king, nevertheless, made no use of them in any of his declarations, whereby, as it seems, those examinations left the business somewhat perplexed. And as for Sir James Tirrel, he was soon after beheaded in the Tower-yard for other matters of treason.
Página 291 - Of some the abundance of an idle brain Will judged be, and painted forgery, Rather than matter of just memory: Since none that breatheth living air, doth know Where is that happy land of faery Which I so much do vaunt, but no where show, But vouch antiquities, which nobody can know.