A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and sons, 1880 |
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... minstrel singing in the Castle hall , and the monk at work in the still Scriptorium ; to peep at Caxton in the Almonry , and watch the curtain rise on Shakspere at the Globe ; to trace the lights and shadows flung upon English books ...
... minstrel singing in the Castle hall , and the monk at work in the still Scriptorium ; to peep at Caxton in the Almonry , and watch the curtain rise on Shakspere at the Globe ; to trace the lights and shadows flung upon English books ...
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... Minstrel and the Monk II . Sir John de Mandeville .... III . John de Wycliffe .... IV . Geoffrey Chaucer ...... 35 V. John Gower ... 61 44 46 VI . King James I. of Scotland ....... VII . Other Writers of the First Era ... 64 67 53 ...
... Minstrel and the Monk II . Sir John de Mandeville .... III . John de Wycliffe .... IV . Geoffrey Chaucer ...... 35 V. John Gower ... 61 44 46 VI . King James I. of Scotland ....... VII . Other Writers of the First Era ... 64 67 53 ...
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... Minstrel of the Anglo - Saxons was a most impor- tant person . When the evening shadows fell , and the " mead- bench " was filled , his scene of triumph came . His touch on the " wood of joy " had power alike to rouse the fiery passions ...
... Minstrel of the Anglo - Saxons was a most impor- tant person . When the evening shadows fell , and the " mead- bench " was filled , his scene of triumph came . His touch on the " wood of joy " had power alike to rouse the fiery passions ...
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... minstrels , who were always warmly welcomed and often richly paid . Many poets of English birth soon took up this foreign strain , and wrote lays in Norman - French . The deeds of Alexander , Charlemagne , Havelok the Dane , Guy of ...
... minstrels , who were always warmly welcomed and often richly paid . Many poets of English birth soon took up this foreign strain , and wrote lays in Norman - French . The deeds of Alexander , Charlemagne , Havelok the Dane , Guy of ...
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... that it pro- bably belongs to the end of the thirteenth century . The language of the " Ormulum " is , beyond question , in a more advanced stage than that of Layamon's " Brut . " MINSTREL VERSUS MONK . 35 FIRST ERA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... that it pro- bably belongs to the end of the thirteenth century . The language of the " Ormulum " is , beyond question , in a more advanced stage than that of Layamon's " Brut . " MINSTREL VERSUS MONK . 35 FIRST ERA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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