... has the great honour of being the originator of blank verse, and blank verse ofby no means a
bad pattern. The following sonnet, combined Alexandrine and fourteener, and blank verse extract, may ... Froissart and of divers examples of late Continental
romance had provided much prose of no mean quality for light reading, and also by their imitation of the
florid and fanciful style of the French-Flemish ... B." and R. Allot, and named England's Helicon,
England's Parnassus, and Belvedere (the two latter being rather anthologies of extracts than miscellanies
proper), and by Francis Davison's...
... head than the flowers of the broom, and her
skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the
wood anemone amidst the spray of the ... as the language of the ruling class of Roman immigrants, who
introduced Roman civilization and later on Christianity, to the Britons of the towns and plains. But the interest
of the Romans in ... throng of melodists who made the Elizabethan age in many respects the greatest lyric period
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AN ECONOMIC HISTORY
OF THE ENGLISH POOR LAW
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GEORGE R. BOYER
Cornell
University
The right of the
University of Cambridge
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was granted by
Henry ... west and north, and it
analyzes the effect of poor relief on wages, profits, birth rates, and
migration.
The issues raised are not new; each of them was debated by contempo-
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8 An Economic Historyof the
English Poor
Law
excess of the marginal product of labor, the effect of poor relief on
migration was small.
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1712 he held the office of Secretary to Ann, Duchess of Monmouth; and in 1714 he accompanied the Earl of
Clarendon to Hanover. In this ... regarded by many with disfavour and alarm.
TO SIGNORA CUZZONI.
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Bane of every manly ... but everything to humour and fancy, especially
to the general satire upon human vanity. "The Emperor of Lilliput is taller by almost the breadth of my nail
than any of his Court, which alone...
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greatly disheartened by having constantly to retreat, and by the loss of many brave officers and men, who fell
sick and died of the smallpox. July 1 the army ... counterpart of Burgoyne's, in that it consisted of regular troops, loyalists, and
Indians. Many of the loyalists, and most of the Indians, had lived in this valley, so that St. Leger had no want
of ... of grenadiers and light infantry, the 24th British regiment, Breyman's Germans, and all the
Canadians, loyalists, and Indians now left with the army; he also had four pieces of artillery....
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to 1800, by Mary ... most adverse circumstances, and one of the many, if not one of the
most, triumphant denials of the often-repeated charges of indolence made against the mendicant orders, and
of aversion to learning...
... ofEnglish events (reign of George III.) may be traced in any of the English histories mentioned on
p. 60. For the Englishliteratureof the period; see the author's HistoryofEnglish Literature.
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HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
BY REUBEN POST HALLECK, M.A. (YALE) AUTHOR OF " ;HISTORY OF ... of much of the historyof the period is given in the biographies of Washington by
Lodge, of Franklin by Morse, of Hamilton by Lodge, and of Jefferson by Morse. (American Statesmen
Series.)
LITERARY
Tyler's...
... compound of classical and romantic fancy, of pagan and Christian theology, of
real and fictitious history, of tragical and comic incidents, of familiar and heroic manners, and of satirical and
sublime ... borderland. He found, in Burns' "Antiquities of
Westmoreland and Cumberland" mention of a line of Rolands de Vaux, lords of Triermain, a fief of the
barony of Gilsland; and this ... choosing with sureness of taste the best among variant
readings, and with a more intimate knowledge of local ways and language than any previous ballad-fancier
had commanded. He handled his texts more...
... humour; by degrees something of art and skill was attained. The
misfortunes of husbands supplied an inexhaustible store of merriment; if woman and the love of woman were
idealised in the romances, ... IV
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Roland, and the year 1099. The poet was probably a Norman, and he may have been one of the Norman
William's followers in the invasion of England.
More than any other poem, the Chanson...
... feeding and grazing than profitable for tillage and bearing
of corne and such store is there of cattle in everie place that the fourth part of the
land is scarcely manured for the provision of graine.' ... mostly swamp and
bog, with here and there a strip of cultivated land, much of which had been tilled and
neglected; a great part too of Yorkshire was swamp, heath, and forest, and of
Lancashire ... pasture, and enhanced the old rents and
raised the prices of corn, cattle, wool, and poultry almost double, &apos ;by reason whereof a
mervaylous multitude and nombre of the people of this realme...
... Notice that each of
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these triangles certainly ... decom-
position of 1001 into cubes.
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pair of real numbers. See Figure 1.36. Discuss this idea
in class. Now use your understanding of the Pythagorean
theorem ... two interior angles α and β.
We have defined the necessary terminology in context. The exterior an-
gle τ is determined by the two sides
AC and BC of the triangle—but is
outside the triangle. This...
... arrived, and immigrant communities
have made their contribution to the life of the country. She evokes lost
worlds of open fires and ice houses, of constant pickling and
preserving, and of manchet ... liberal quantities of it, both
as barley sugar and the more exotic concoctions of rose and violet
sugar, by his physician Hugh of Evesham. To no avail: all the sugar and
all the votive candles, ... had anything to do with popish
tradition:
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holiness, that we should in them, and by them, live to the glory of God and
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1. Icelandic literature
History and criticism. I.
Neijmann, Daisy L., 1963–
II. American-Scandinavian
Foundation.
pt7154.h57 2006
839%.6909—dc22
2006021625
A History of
Icelandic Literature
Edited ... symbolic
sacrifice of himself to himself by hanging, wounding, and fasting. During
his hanging for nine nights (and days), he visited the world of the dead.
The pagan and shamanistic origin of this poetry can ... Congress
Cataloging-in-
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A historyof Icelandic
literature / edited by
Daisy Neijmann.
p. cm. — (Histories of
Scandinavian literature ;
v. 5)
Includes bibliographical
references and index.
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