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... immense popularity , and for its being the fountain - head of a school of allegorical poetry which flourished for many centuries in France . Lorris died before he had finished his work , which , however , was destined to be completed in ...
... immense popularity , and for its being the fountain - head of a school of allegorical poetry which flourished for many centuries in France . Lorris died before he had finished his work , which , however , was destined to be completed in ...
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... immense ; and during the long combat of the eigh- teenth century it was used as a kind of armoury , supplying many of their sharpest weapons to the writers of the time . It was not , however , until a few years after the death of the ...
... immense ; and during the long combat of the eigh- teenth century it was used as a kind of armoury , supplying many of their sharpest weapons to the writers of the time . It was not , however , until a few years after the death of the ...
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Lytton Strachey. ing of public opinion as would cause an immense transformation in the whole spirit of national life . With the actual processes of political change , with the practical details of political machinery , very few of them ...
Lytton Strachey. ing of public opinion as would cause an immense transformation in the whole spirit of national life . With the actual processes of political change , with the practical details of political machinery , very few of them ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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