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... early phase . A generation or two later Barbour , Gower , Chaucer , and Wickliffe exhibit the language in its perfect mould , but it is not till 1520 that we reach the stage at which the written speech used by Tyndale , Skelton , Surrey ...
... early phase . A generation or two later Barbour , Gower , Chaucer , and Wickliffe exhibit the language in its perfect mould , but it is not till 1520 that we reach the stage at which the written speech used by Tyndale , Skelton , Surrey ...
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... early text of a document important for the history of the Low Countries . The original was written about 1150 . 4. VITA KAROLI MAGNI REGIS IMPERATORIS EDITA AB EINHARDO ABBATE . Gens Merouingorum de qua Franci reges sibi creare soliti ...
... early text of a document important for the history of the Low Countries . The original was written about 1150 . 4. VITA KAROLI MAGNI REGIS IMPERATORIS EDITA AB EINHARDO ABBATE . Gens Merouingorum de qua Franci reges sibi creare soliti ...
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... early text of a document important for the history of the Low Countries . The original was written about 1150 . 4. VITA KAROLI MAGNI REGIS IMPERATORIS EDITA AB EINHARDO ABBATE . Gens Merouingorum de qua Franci reges sibi creare soliti ...
... early text of a document important for the history of the Low Countries . The original was written about 1150 . 4. VITA KAROLI MAGNI REGIS IMPERATORIS EDITA AB EINHARDO ABBATE . Gens Merouingorum de qua Franci reges sibi creare soliti ...
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... early twelfth century , who strikes with his sword at an upright beast like a grotesque lion , on the other side of the tree ; on 57 , two similar grotesque animals fighting ; on 66 , another hybrid animal ; on 73 , a grotesque lion ...
... early twelfth century , who strikes with his sword at an upright beast like a grotesque lion , on the other side of the tree ; on 57 , two similar grotesque animals fighting ; on 66 , another hybrid animal ; on 73 , a grotesque lion ...
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... earliest suggestion of the authorship . 55 LANGLAND . The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman , etc. by W. Langland , edited ... early in 1419 . 57 THE BRUT CHRONICLE . Here may a man heren 14 BERNARD QUARITCH'S ROUGH LIST , No. 193.
... earliest suggestion of the authorship . 55 LANGLAND . The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman , etc. by W. Langland , edited ... early in 1419 . 57 THE BRUT CHRONICLE . Here may a man heren 14 BERNARD QUARITCH'S ROUGH LIST , No. 193.
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