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... story in 308 pages , and these are quarto pages containing not much more than three hundred words , while the pages of Holinshed and Speed are folios printed in double columns . One page of Holinshed contains as many words as four pages ...
... story in 308 pages , and these are quarto pages containing not much more than three hundred words , while the pages of Holinshed and Speed are folios printed in double columns . One page of Holinshed contains as many words as four pages ...
Page 232
... story of Sabrina , the ' virgin daughter of Locrine ' , who gave her name to the Severn , and he now told it once more in prose.1 The space devoted in the History of Britain to the story of Lear and Cordelia is probably a tribute to ...
... story of Sabrina , the ' virgin daughter of Locrine ' , who gave her name to the Severn , and he now told it once more in prose.1 The space devoted in the History of Britain to the story of Lear and Cordelia is probably a tribute to ...
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... story with a miracle in it should be told in his pages . Legends of martyrs were therefore excluded . Speaking of Alban of Verulam , he says that the story of his martyrdom ' soiled and worse martyred with the fabling zeal of some idle ...
... story with a miracle in it should be told in his pages . Legends of martyrs were therefore excluded . Speaking of Alban of Verulam , he says that the story of his martyrdom ' soiled and worse martyred with the fabling zeal of some idle ...
Contents
SIXTH ANNUAL General Meeting June 25 1908 | 5 |
SUMMARY KNIGHTS FEES BY PAUL VINOGRADOFF FELLOW OF | 15 |
AN UNRECOGNIZED WESTMINSTER CHRONICLER 13811394 | 65 |
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