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... kind , and year by year the number of perform- ances increased , until almost every festival or holiday had its play ... kind of play , in which all the characters were of this kind . It was really an allegory , just as The Romaunt of ...
... kind , and year by year the number of perform- ances increased , until almost every festival or holiday had its play ... kind of play , in which all the characters were of this kind . It was really an allegory , just as The Romaunt of ...
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... kind . There had never been so large a number of readers in the country as there was now . There were no very important events to take people's attention — at least , when the excite- ment of the South Sea Bubble had died away . The ...
... kind . There had never been so large a number of readers in the country as there was now . There were no very important events to take people's attention — at least , when the excite- ment of the South Sea Bubble had died away . The ...
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... kind of religious melancholia ; he tried to take his own life , and for eighteen months was shut up in a private asylum for the insane . When he recovered his friends found him a quiet home in the town of Huntingdon , and after that ...
... kind of religious melancholia ; he tried to take his own life , and for eighteen months was shut up in a private asylum for the insane . When he recovered his friends found him a quiet home in the town of Huntingdon , and after that ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE LAYS OF THE FIGHTINGMEN | 13 |
THE SINGERS OF THE CHURCH | 26 |
THE MONKS AND THEIR BOOKS | 32 |
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