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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... 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 ...
Page 187
... hand he bar . Wallas with it fast on the cheik him tuk Wyth so gud will , quhill of his feit he schuk . The suerd flaw fra him a fur breid on the land . Wallas was glaid , and hynt it sone in hand ; caught - soon And with the swerd ...
... hand he bar . Wallas with it fast on the cheik him tuk Wyth so gud will , quhill of his feit he schuk . The suerd flaw fra him a fur breid on the land . Wallas was glaid , and hynt it sone in hand ; caught - soon And with the swerd ...
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... hand , and told her it was my chiefest happiness to see her in safety , and in health , which I wished might long continue . She took me by the hand , and wrung it hard , and said , ' No , Robin , I am not well , ' and then discoursed ...
... hand , and told her it was my chiefest happiness to see her in safety , and in health , which I wished might long continue . She took me by the hand , and wrung it hard , and said , ' No , Robin , I am not well , ' and then discoursed ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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