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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... SCOTTISH LITERATURE . t 1 At the siege of Berwick in 1206 the. N building up the great fabric of English literature Scottish writers have had no unimpor- tant share . One of the very oldest ... Scottish Literature 163 SCOTTISH LITERATURE.
... SCOTTISH LITERATURE . t 1 At the siege of Berwick in 1206 the. N building up the great fabric of English literature Scottish writers have had no unimpor- tant share . One of the very oldest ... Scottish Literature 163 SCOTTISH LITERATURE.
Page 166
... Scottish literature , in virtue of the authorship of Tristrem . But , as we have seen , there is no sufficient ground for holding that this poem was written north of the Border ( page 44 ) . The romance about his own adventures at the ...
... Scottish literature , in virtue of the authorship of Tristrem . But , as we have seen , there is no sufficient ground for holding that this poem was written north of the Border ( page 44 ) . The romance about his own adventures at the ...
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... Scottish - English or English - Scottish are many , curious , and variously proportioned . By the middle of the seventeenth century many Scotsmen wrote passable English , though when they essayed to speak it their tongue bewrayed them ...
... Scottish - English or English - Scottish are many , curious , and variously proportioned . By the middle of the seventeenth century many Scotsmen wrote passable English , though when they essayed to speak it their tongue bewrayed them ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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