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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... kind in the eighth or the ninth century is unique in Teutonic literature of that time . Poetry of natural description is to be found also in Welsh and Irish song , and it is probable that the writing of it in England is to be traced to ...
... kind in the eighth or the ninth century is unique in Teutonic literature of that time . Poetry of natural description is to be found also in Welsh and Irish song , and it is probable that the writing of it in England is to be traced to ...
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... kind ; it is always the harder the more the rough water , the swart sea - streams , are beating upon it . King of Wessex , and he made some English songs. to be hoped that some day we shall get evidence to prove that these fine , bold ...
... kind ; it is always the harder the more the rough water , the swart sea - streams , are beating upon it . King of Wessex , and he made some English songs. to be hoped that some day we shall get evidence to prove that these fine , bold ...
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... kind of education to the people . And the new teaching was now given in the language of the people . At last the work of Ælfred began to produce its fruit . Æthelwold loved his native tongue ; King Elfred's books were studied at ...
... kind of education to the people . And the new teaching was now given in the language of the people . At last the work of Ælfred began to produce its fruit . Æthelwold loved his native tongue ; King Elfred's books were studied at ...
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... kind show how active were the dispensaries of the monasteries . Many reli- gious books translations of the Psalms , the Gospels , and the Pseudo - gospels , Biographies of the Fathers , of the martyrs , of saints , and a number of ...
... kind show how active were the dispensaries of the monasteries . Many reli- gious books translations of the Psalms , the Gospels , and the Pseudo - gospels , Biographies of the Fathers , of the martyrs , of saints , and a number of ...
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... kind is of one in honour of St Catherine , performed at Dunstable by a certain Geoffrey , who by 1119 had become Abbot of St Albans ; but in the Life of St Thomas à Becket written , about 1182 , by William Fitzstephen we are told that ...
... kind is of one in honour of St Catherine , performed at Dunstable by a certain Geoffrey , who by 1119 had become Abbot of St Albans ; but in the Life of St Thomas à Becket written , about 1182 , by William Fitzstephen we are told that ...
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