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... passion for beautiful books . Prizes were offered ( as the reader of The Cloister and the Hearth will remember ) to excite emulation among caligraphers ; and corporations existed , comprising the scriveners , bookbinders , engravers ...
... passion for beautiful books . Prizes were offered ( as the reader of The Cloister and the Hearth will remember ) to excite emulation among caligraphers ; and corporations existed , comprising the scriveners , bookbinders , engravers ...
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... passion of Criseyde and the hu- morous side of Sir Pandarus in a manner which was entirely fresh and strange to mediæval fiction . Boccaccio had used the ottava rima in his poem , but Chaucer uses the seven - line stanza with a mastery ...
... passion of Criseyde and the hu- morous side of Sir Pandarus in a manner which was entirely fresh and strange to mediæval fiction . Boccaccio had used the ottava rima in his poem , but Chaucer uses the seven - line stanza with a mastery ...
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... passion , of mortal feud . And the whole was surmounted by the mysterious legend of the Quest of the Holy Grail — the legend , that is , of a protracted search for the blood of Christ , preserved in a small casket or vessel of some kind ...
... passion , of mortal feud . And the whole was surmounted by the mysterious legend of the Quest of the Holy Grail — the legend , that is , of a protracted search for the blood of Christ , preserved in a small casket or vessel of some kind ...
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... passion and in pathos , who wrote , not for the people , but for the court , and was much less easily stirred by the sentiment of patriotism.1 1 The metrical side of Dunbar has been studied not only by Professor Schipper ( now of Vienna ) ...
... passion and in pathos , who wrote , not for the people , but for the court , and was much less easily stirred by the sentiment of patriotism.1 1 The metrical side of Dunbar has been studied not only by Professor Schipper ( now of Vienna ) ...
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... passion and the rage . From the queen to the humblest courtier the Italian tongue was the test of good breeding . It is doubtful whether any foreign vogue before or since ever took such a complete hold upon English society . It has been ...
... passion and the rage . From the queen to the humblest courtier the Italian tongue was the test of good breeding . It is doubtful whether any foreign vogue before or since ever took such a complete hold upon English society . It has been ...
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