Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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... England ; but it began to act on us again at the end of the eighteenth century , and at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth the Gaelic spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh ...
... England ; but it began to act on us again at the end of the eighteenth century , and at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth the Gaelic spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh ...
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... England ; for , though its composition into a whole belongs to Christian England , the lays worked up in it go back to the seventh , and some of them , it may be , to the sixth , century . The Embarking of Beowulf . Then the well ...
... England ; for , though its composition into a whole belongs to Christian England , the lays worked up in it go back to the seventh , and some of them , it may be , to the sixth , century . The Embarking of Beowulf . Then the well ...
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... England . The royal line of England goes back to Cerdic , the still more royal line of English poets goes back to Cædmon . The poetry of the School of Cadmon belongs to the end of ( Genesis , ll . 1314-1326 . ) the seventh and the ...
... England . The royal line of England goes back to Cerdic , the still more royal line of English poets goes back to Cædmon . The poetry of the School of Cadmon belongs to the end of ( Genesis , ll . 1314-1326 . ) the seventh and the ...
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... England kingdom of Mercia is even of less im- portance than it is in Wessex . Under Æthelbald the country seems to have won a reputation for learning ; and Ecgwin , Bishop of Worcester , is said to be our first autobiographer . The Life ...
... England kingdom of Mercia is even of less im- portance than it is in Wessex . Under Æthelbald the country seems to have won a reputation for learning ; and Ecgwin , Bishop of Worcester , is said to be our first autobiographer . The Life ...
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... England . When Ecgberht died Elberht succeeded him , and with Alcuin's help increased the library and de- veloped the education given in the schools . In 770 York and its library and schools was the centre of European learning ...
... England . When Ecgberht died Elberht succeeded him , and with Alcuin's help increased the library and de- veloped the education given in the schools . In 770 York and its library and schools was the centre of European learning ...
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