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 pagina's |
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Pagina 17
... born at St. Albans , 1 about the year 1300. Stimulated by an unconquerable curiosity to see foreign countries , he departed from England in 1322 , and continued abroad for thirty - four years ; during which time his person and ...
... born at St. Albans , 1 about the year 1300. Stimulated by an unconquerable curiosity to see foreign countries , he departed from England in 1322 , and continued abroad for thirty - four years ; during which time his person and ...
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... born probably about the year 1328 , though all attempts to fix the precise year have utterly failed . His parentage is unknown , nor is there any certainty where he was educated . His great genius early attracted the notice of the ...
... born probably about the year 1328 , though all attempts to fix the precise year have utterly failed . His parentage is unknown , nor is there any certainty where he was educated . His great genius early attracted the notice of the ...
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... born , is uncertain . His education , says Warton , appears to have been liberal , and his course of reading extensive , and he tempered his severer studies by mingling with the world . By a critical cultivation of his native language ...
... born , is uncertain . His education , says Warton , appears to have been liberal , and his course of reading extensive , and he tempered his severer studies by mingling with the world . By a critical cultivation of his native language ...
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... born in 1395. His elder brother 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 ...
... born in 1395. His elder brother 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 ...
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... born in London in the year 1480. When a boy he was in the family of the Archbishop of Canterbury , who used to say of him to his guests , " This boy who waits at my table , who lives to see it , will prove a marvellous man . " He ...
... born in London in the year 1480. When a boy he was in the family of the Archbishop of Canterbury , who used to say of him to his guests , " This boy who waits at my table , who lives to see it , will prove a marvellous man . " He ...
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