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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... learning ; and Ecgwin , Bishop of Worcester , is said to be our first autobiographer . The Life of St Guthlac , written by Felix of Crowland for an East Anglian king , in outpuffing Latin , is the only work we know of . But Æthelbald ...
... learning ; and Ecgwin , Bishop of Worcester , is said to be our first autobiographer . The Life of St Guthlac , written by Felix of Crowland for an East Anglian king , in outpuffing Latin , is the only work we know of . But Æthelbald ...
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... learning at Bæda's death was trans- ferred from Jarrow to York , where Ecgberht , Bæda's pupil , became an archbishop . The school he established at York may almost be termed a university . The education given was in all the branches of ...
... learning at Bæda's death was trans- ferred from Jarrow to York , where Ecgberht , Bæda's pupil , became an archbishop . The school he established at York may almost be termed a university . The education given was in all the branches of ...
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... learning ; and I find that this ambition reigns nowhere so much as in this island . But under favour this word learning is taken in a narrower sense among us than among other nations ; we seem to restrain it only to the book ; whereas ...
... learning ; and I find that this ambition reigns nowhere so much as in this island . But under favour this word learning is taken in a narrower sense among us than among other nations ; we seem to restrain it only to the book ; whereas ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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