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... monks have imposed their ideas on the poets , but just that they are often there in the story . The poets often laugh at them , sometimes acidly , and the dominant ideas of the poets , including their prayers , bear no clear sign of ...
... monks have imposed their ideas on the poets , but just that they are often there in the story . The poets often laugh at them , sometimes acidly , and the dominant ideas of the poets , including their prayers , bear no clear sign of ...
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... monk , has enormously funny possibilities , and has , too , a persuasively authentic ring . The poet develops both sides , though there are many adventures in the second redaction which do not concern monks at all . Gulllaume's ...
... monk , has enormously funny possibilities , and has , too , a persuasively authentic ring . The poet develops both sides , though there are many adventures in the second redaction which do not concern monks at all . Gulllaume's ...
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... monks in study , discussion and writing - the composition of sermons and commentaries , even histories but none of these would be seen from the outside . The monks are choir monks ; for work in the field we turn to Guillaume's life as a ...
... monks in study , discussion and writing - the composition of sermons and commentaries , even histories but none of these would be seen from the outside . The monks are choir monks ; for work in the field we turn to Guillaume's life as a ...
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