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... Holinshed and Speed are folios printed in double columns . One page of Holinshed contains as many words as four pages of Milton , and in lightness of touch , as well as brevity , Milton as a story - teller exceeds either Holinshed ...
... Holinshed and Speed are folios printed in double columns . One page of Holinshed contains as many words as four pages of Milton , and in lightness of touch , as well as brevity , Milton as a story - teller exceeds either Holinshed ...
Page 234
... Holinshed , Stow , and even the critical Speed , with some differences as to the details , all accepted these stories . Milton relates them , but he does so with obvious scepticism , and concludes : Of these matters , variously written ...
... Holinshed , Stow , and even the critical Speed , with some differences as to the details , all accepted these stories . Milton relates them , but he does so with obvious scepticism , and concludes : Of these matters , variously written ...
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... Holinshed's Chronicle , many things are written beyond credit , for that there is no ancient author of authority that confirmeth the same ; but surely as may be thought he was some worthy man , and by all likelihood a great enemy to the ...
... Holinshed's Chronicle , many things are written beyond credit , for that there is no ancient author of authority that confirmeth the same ; but surely as may be thought he was some worthy man , and by all likelihood a great enemy to the ...
Contents
SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING June 25 1908 | 7 |
SUMMARY KNIGHTS FEES BY PAUL VINOGRADOFF Fellow of | 15 |
AN UNRECOGNIZED WESTMINSTER CHRONICLER 13811394 | 65 |
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