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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... printing and translating in his native land . At Michaelmas 1476 he rented from the Dean and Chapter a shop in the Sanctuary at Westminster for ten shillings a year , and in 1477 produced the first book printed on English soil , The ...
... printing and translating in his native land . At Michaelmas 1476 he rented from the Dean and Chapter a shop in the Sanctuary at Westminster for ten shillings a year , and in 1477 produced the first book printed on English soil , The ...
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... printed in England during this long period . No doubt many such books were imported , and the handful of learned Englishmen by writing in Latin were able to have their books printed abroad ; 1 but it is clear evidence of the low state ...
... printed in England during this long period . No doubt many such books were imported , and the handful of learned Englishmen by writing in Latin were able to have their books printed abroad ; 1 but it is clear evidence of the low state ...
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... printed at Paris , 1626 ) , Lord Campbell ( Lives of the Chancellors ) , Seebohm ( Oxford Reformers ) , Father Bridgett ( 1891 ) , and Hutton ( 1895 ) : also Nisard's Renaissance et Réforme ( 1855 ; 3rd ed . 1877 ) , and Father ...
... printed at Paris , 1626 ) , Lord Campbell ( Lives of the Chancellors ) , Seebohm ( Oxford Reformers ) , Father Bridgett ( 1891 ) , and Hutton ( 1895 ) : also Nisard's Renaissance et Réforme ( 1855 ; 3rd ed . 1877 ) , and Father ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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