A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes ... : Designed as a Text-book for the Highest Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private ReadingE.C. & J. Biddle, 1852 - 776 strani |
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... died at Leige , ( Belgium , ) November 17 , 1371. John Bale , in his catalogue of British writers , gives him the follow- ing fine character , as translated by Hakluyt : - " John Mandevil Knight , borne in the Towne of S. Albans , was ...
... died at Leige , ( Belgium , ) November 17 , 1371. John Bale , in his catalogue of British writers , gives him the follow- ing fine character , as translated by Hakluyt : - " John Mandevil Knight , borne in the Towne of S. Albans , was ...
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... died December 30 , 1384 , of a stroke of the palsy , continuing to the very end of life to labor with increasing zeal in that holy cause to which he had devoted himself in his earlier years . His inveterate enemies , the papal clergy ...
... died December 30 , 1384 , of a stroke of the palsy , continuing to the very end of life to labor with increasing zeal in that holy cause to which he had devoted himself in his earlier years . His inveterate enemies , the papal clergy ...
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... Died 1408 . JOHN GOWER , one of the most ancient of the English poets , was contempo- rary with Chaucer , his intimate friend . Where , when , or of what family he was born , is uncertain . His education , says Warton , appears to have ...
... Died 1408 . JOHN GOWER , one of the most ancient of the English poets , was contempo- rary with Chaucer , his intimate friend . Where , when , or of what family he was born , is uncertain . His education , says Warton , appears to have ...
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... died , and the king determined to send his surviving son , James , to be educated at the court of his ally , Charles VI . , of France ; and he em barked for that country with a numerous train of attendants in 1405. But the ship was ...
... died , and the king determined to send his surviving son , James , to be educated at the court of his ally , Charles VI . , of France ; and he em barked for that country with a numerous train of attendants in 1405. But the ship was ...
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... died on a scaffold , a martyr to his adhesion to the papal church , and the supremacy of the pope , on the 5th of July , 1535. « Nothing is wanting , " ( says Mr. Hume , ) " to the glory of this end but a better cause . But as the man ...
... died on a scaffold , a martyr to his adhesion to the papal church , and the supremacy of the pope , on the 5th of July , 1535. « Nothing is wanting , " ( says Mr. Hume , ) " to the glory of this end but a better cause . But as the man ...
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