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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... Prose from Ælfred to the Conquest . Ælfred , though he began the prose of England , failed in establishing it . No results , save one , followed his work till ninety years had passed away . The one exception was the narrative in the ...
... Prose from Ælfred to the Conquest . Ælfred , though he began the prose of England , failed in establishing it . No results , save one , followed his work till ninety years had passed away . The one exception was the narrative in the ...
Page 238
... prose - writers of the next age were older still ; Raleigh was eighteen , Hooker and Sidney sixteen , Bacon nine . These were among the foremost of the names which were to make the closing years of the reign of Elizabeth illustrious ...
... prose - writers of the next age were older still ; Raleigh was eighteen , Hooker and Sidney sixteen , Bacon nine . These were among the foremost of the names which were to make the closing years of the reign of Elizabeth illustrious ...
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... prose , plentifully besprinkled with bucolic verse . This work positively fascinated the youth of Europe , and was imitated , to satiety and ridi- cule , in every language . The Portuguese , in particular , greatly delighted in it , and ...
... prose , plentifully besprinkled with bucolic verse . This work positively fascinated the youth of Europe , and was imitated , to satiety and ridi- cule , in every language . The Portuguese , in particular , greatly delighted in it , and ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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