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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... hand for the folk , direful punishment ; they cared not for that . Then , after many a winter , the faithful Creator saw that mightiest ocean - house towering up ready ; within and without with the lime of earth made fast against the ...
... hand for the folk , direful punishment ; they cared not for that . Then , after many a winter , the faithful Creator saw that mightiest ocean - house towering up ready ; within and without with the lime of earth made fast against the ...
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... Hand - book . When Asser quoted or Ælfred read out of the Bible or the Fathers any passage which interested the king , it was written down and translated into English in the note - book which the king kept in his breast . It was a book ...
... Hand - book . When Asser quoted or Ælfred read out of the Bible or the Fathers any passage which interested the king , it was written down and translated into English in the note - book which the king kept in his breast . It was a book ...
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... hand she bore . ' Adam , O my Lord , this apple is so sweet , Blithe within the breast ; bright this messenger ; I see gear ' Tis an Angel good from God ! By his That he is the errand - bringer of our heavenly King ! I can see Him now ...
... hand she bore . ' Adam , O my Lord , this apple is so sweet , Blithe within the breast ; bright this messenger ; I see gear ' Tis an Angel good from God ! By his That he is the errand - bringer of our heavenly King ! I can see Him now ...
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... hand . The beginning , then , of Genesis was done by Elfric , with Numbers , Deuteronomy , Joshua , Judges , Esther ... hand - in - hand with the saga stories over England , awakened the imagina- tion of the farmer and the peasant . Then ...
... hand . The beginning , then , of Genesis was done by Elfric , with Numbers , Deuteronomy , Joshua , Judges , Esther ... hand - in - hand with the saga stories over England , awakened the imagina- tion of the farmer and the peasant . Then ...
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... hand to the year 1131. Another hand , using a more modern English , carried it on from 1132 to 1154 , when it closed with the accession of Henry II . The records at Worcester and Peter- borough are not unworthy of the first records at ...
... hand to the year 1131. Another hand , using a more modern English , carried it on from 1132 to 1154 , when it closed with the accession of Henry II . The records at Worcester and Peter- borough are not unworthy of the first records at ...
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Ælfred agayne Beowulf Bible Bishop Brythons Cædmon called Canterbury Canterbury Tales Celtic century Chaucer Christ Chronicle Church Cynewulf death doth doun edition England English poetry Euphuism Exeter Book Faerie Queene fair French grene gret grete hand hath haue Henry honour Huchown John king Kingis Quair knight kyng lady land Latin Layamon legend lines literary lived London Lord lyke maner myght mynde never noble nocht Northumbria play poem poet poetic printed probably prose Queen Quen quhen quhilk quod rhymes Richard romance sayd schal Scotland Scots Scottish shal Shep song sonnets Spenser stanzas story tale tell thai thair thee thenne ther theyr thing Thomas thou thow thyng tion translation trewe tyme unto Vercelli Book verse whan William wolde words writing written wrote wyll Wynkyn de Worde wyth