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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... speak it . In Ælfred's time the Low Dutch dialects called English , and spoken by a few hundred thousand islanders , were un- known outside the island . Queen Elizabeth ruled scarcely three million subjects , many of whom were not of ...
... speak it . In Ælfred's time the Low Dutch dialects called English , and spoken by a few hundred thousand islanders , were un- known outside the island . Queen Elizabeth ruled scarcely three million subjects , many of whom were not of ...
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... speak in the next section was written under the shadow of the monasteries , and the subject of love is absent . love . The Last Verses of the ' Wanderer ' Whoso then these ruined Walls wisely has thought over , And this darkened life of ...
... speak in the next section was written under the shadow of the monasteries , and the subject of love is absent . love . The Last Verses of the ' Wanderer ' Whoso then these ruined Walls wisely has thought over , And this darkened life of ...
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... speak of the poems themselves . If the Fates of the Apostles be bound up with the Andreas , and if Cynewulf wrote the Andreas , it is here , after the second part of Guthlac , that we may best place these poems . The Fates of the ...
... speak of the poems themselves . If the Fates of the Apostles be bound up with the Andreas , and if Cynewulf wrote the Andreas , it is here , after the second part of Guthlac , that we may best place these poems . The Fates of the ...
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... speak what he speaketh and do what he doeth . Elfred's Prayer . Lord God Almighty , shaper and ruler of all creatures , I pray Thee for Thy great mercy , and for the token of the holy rood , and for the maidenhood of St Mary , and for ...
... speak what he speaketh and do what he doeth . Elfred's Prayer . Lord God Almighty , shaper and ruler of all creatures , I pray Thee for Thy great mercy , and for the token of the holy rood , and for the maidenhood of St Mary , and for ...
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... speak it— Continued from foot of page 24. ] mære tungol . glad ofer grundas , godes candel beorht , eces drihtnes , oth seo æthele gesceaft sáh tó setle , thær læg secg monig . garum ageted . guman northerne , ofer scyld scoten swilce ...
... speak it— Continued from foot of page 24. ] mære tungol . glad ofer grundas , godes candel beorht , eces drihtnes , oth seo æthele gesceaft sáh tó setle , thær læg secg monig . garum ageted . guman northerne , ofer scyld scoten swilce ...
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