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 1 |
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... England ; but it began to act on us Vagain 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 Vagain 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 . 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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... England of about a fifth , as near as we can reckon , of the contem- porary output of Venice alone . Deficient in quantity , it cannot be said that in quality English books took any higher rank . It is noteworthy that the earliest ...
... England of about a fifth , as near as we can reckon , of the contem- porary output of Venice alone . Deficient in quantity , it cannot be said that in quality English books took any higher rank . It is noteworthy that the earliest ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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