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... nature and the encroachments of the sea ; in comparison with it , England must have been a terrestrial paradise - a very land of Cockaigne . This tendency to relapse into habits of indolence , which Sir Walter Scott has portrayed in the ...
... nature and the encroachments of the sea ; in comparison with it , England must have been a terrestrial paradise - a very land of Cockaigne . This tendency to relapse into habits of indolence , which Sir Walter Scott has portrayed in the ...
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... progressive change . They tried nature , not by an appeal to facts , but by certain physical or metaphysical canons which they supposed to be impregnable . Thus Roger Bacon says that 44 PREL . CH . HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... progressive change . They tried nature , not by an appeal to facts , but by certain physical or metaphysical canons which they supposed to be impregnable . Thus Roger Bacon says that 44 PREL . CH . HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... nature , he was the warm friend and patron of Roger Bacon , and is mentioned by him in terms of high admiration in the Opus Majus . The number of students who flocked to Oxford in this and the following century far surpassed any- thing ...
... nature , he was the warm friend and patron of Roger Bacon , and is mentioned by him in terms of high admiration in the Opus Majus . The number of students who flocked to Oxford in this and the following century far surpassed any- thing ...
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... nature of things hold its ground . In poetry , the originality of the thought , the vigour and aptness of the expression , are what constitutes the charm : we read it , not that we may learn about things , but that we may come in ...
... nature of things hold its ground . In poetry , the originality of the thought , the vigour and aptness of the expression , are what constitutes the charm : we read it , not that we may learn about things , but that we may come in ...
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... nature of a true heroic poem , and contemporaneous with the crusade itself ) , but added by succeeding Norman minstrels in the course of the thirteenth century.1 71. The leading poem of the fourth cycle , that relating to the ancient ...
... nature of a true heroic poem , and contemporaneous with the crusade itself ) , but added by succeeding Norman minstrels in the course of the thirteenth century.1 71. The leading poem of the fourth cycle , that relating to the ancient ...
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