A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... beginning with 1832 , exercised an influence in Parliament quite out of proportion to their numbers . This group ... beginnings of the co - operative .movement , and other liberal causes . He was unmistakably socialistic in his teach ...
... beginning with 1832 , exercised an influence in Parliament quite out of proportion to their numbers . This group ... beginnings of the co - operative .movement , and other liberal causes . He was unmistakably socialistic in his teach ...
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... beginning of accurate and thorough his- torical study in England from William Stubbs's editions for the Rolls Series of Chronicles and Memorials , beginning in 1864 , his Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional ...
... beginning of accurate and thorough his- torical study in England from William Stubbs's editions for the Rolls Series of Chronicles and Memorials , beginning in 1864 , his Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional ...
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... Beginning with the slender idyll of Under the Greenwood Tree ( 1872 ) , he proceeded to the full - length pastoral of the sheep - country , Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ) -unwisely taken by some reviewers for the work of George ...
... Beginning with the slender idyll of Under the Greenwood Tree ( 1872 ) , he proceeded to the full - length pastoral of the sheep - country , Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ) -unwisely taken by some reviewers for the work of George ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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