Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... England during the seventh and eighth centuries . It entered northern England from Iona , where Columba , bringing with him , and hand- ing down to his successors , the poetry and learning of Ireland , had set up his church and dwelling ...
... England during the seventh and eighth centuries . It entered northern England from Iona , where Columba , bringing with him , and hand- ing down to his successors , the poetry and learning of Ireland , had set up his church and dwelling ...
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... England ; for , though its composition into a whole belongs to Christian England , the lays worked up in it go back to the seventh , and some of them , it may be , to the sixth , century . The Embarking of Beowulf . Then the well ...
... England ; for , though its composition into a whole belongs to Christian England , the lays worked up in it go back to the seventh , and some of them , it may be , to the sixth , century . The Embarking of Beowulf . Then the well ...
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... England . The royal line of England goes back to Cerdic , the still more royal line of English poets goes back to Cadmon . The poetry of the School of Cadmon belongs to the end of ( Genesis , ll . 1314-1326 . ) the seventh and the ...
... England . The royal line of England goes back to Cerdic , the still more royal line of English poets goes back to Cadmon . The poetry of the School of Cadmon belongs to the end of ( Genesis , ll . 1314-1326 . ) the seventh and the ...
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... England have written well of their own heart and of God in touch with it . His hymnic passages of exultant praise ought to be translated and loved by all who cherish the Divine praise which from generation to generation has been so ...
... England have written well of their own heart and of God in touch with it . His hymnic passages of exultant praise ought to be translated and loved by all who cherish the Divine praise which from generation to generation has been so ...
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... England and Europe , were all West Saxons . But King of Wessex , and he made some English songs ; but his chief work was in Latin , and it was the Latin of a scholar who knew the Roman classics . He wrote Latin verse with ease , and ...
... England and Europe , were all West Saxons . But King of Wessex , and he made some English songs ; but his chief work was in Latin , and it was the Latin of a scholar who knew the Roman classics . He wrote Latin verse with ease , and ...
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