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... beginning in the latter part of the sixteenth century . The Reformation came to Scotland more violently than it came to England , and pre- cipitated more than a century of bitter controversy and sometimes of sharp civil conflict ; the ...
... beginning in the latter part of the sixteenth century . The Reformation came to Scotland more violently than it came to England , and pre- cipitated more than a century of bitter controversy and sometimes of sharp civil conflict ; the ...
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... beginning of his activity as a poet he was interested in the technical problems of versification . If he never learned to distinguish emotional control from emotional self - indulgence in eighteenth- century English poetry ( his ...
... beginning of his activity as a poet he was interested in the technical problems of versification . If he never learned to distinguish emotional control from emotional self - indulgence in eighteenth- century English poetry ( his ...
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