Legends of the Saxon SaintsC. Kegan Paul & Company, 1879 - 289 páginas |
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... AUBREY DE VERE , BART . Mary Tudor : an Historical Drama . Julian the Apostate and the Duke of Mercia . A Song of Faith , Devout Exercises and Sonnets . B. M. PICKERING . SAXON OF THE SAINTS BY AUBREY De Vere Hic sunt.
... AUBREY DE VERE , BART . Mary Tudor : an Historical Drama . Julian the Apostate and the Duke of Mercia . A Song of Faith , Devout Exercises and Sonnets . B. M. PICKERING . SAXON OF THE SAINTS BY AUBREY De Vere Hic sunt.
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... history of a nation , its conversion to Christianity , largely as it is often recorded in national legends , has never been selected as a theme for poetry . That event may indeed not supply the materials necessary for an Epic or a Drama ...
... history of a nation , its conversion to Christianity , largely as it is often recorded in national legends , has never been selected as a theme for poetry . That event may indeed not supply the materials necessary for an Epic or a Drama ...
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... History . ' In the following poems I have endea- voured to walk in the footsteps of that great master . Their scope will best be indicated by some remarks upon the character of that wonderful age which he records . St. Augustine landed ...
... History . ' In the following poems I have endea- voured to walk in the footsteps of that great master . Their scope will best be indicated by some remarks upon the character of that wonderful age which he records . St. Augustine landed ...
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... history had trained it for a wonderful destiny . Christianity in mastering the Greek had possessed itself of the intellect of the world , and in mastering Rome had found access to all those vast regions conquered by Roman arms , opened ...
... history had trained it for a wonderful destiny . Christianity in mastering the Greek had possessed itself of the intellect of the world , and in mastering Rome had found access to all those vast regions conquered by Roman arms , opened ...
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... history of a race before which such destinies lay ? What training had prepared it for its work - the last that might have been expected from it ? On this subject there remains a tradition , the profoundly significant cha- racter of ...
... history of a race before which such destinies lay ? What training had prepared it for its work - the last that might have been expected from it ? On this subject there remains a tradition , the profoundly significant cha- racter of ...
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