Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ELFRED ... 212 SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE ... JOHN OF TREVISA 16 . BÆDA ... ELFRED . 18 JOHN WYCLIF THE BIBLE ... 19 NICHOLAS HEREFORD BRUNANBURH ... POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST " THE FIGHT AT MALDON 22 JOHN PURVEY ...
... LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ELFRED ... 212 SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE ... JOHN OF TREVISA 16 . BÆDA ... ELFRED . 18 JOHN WYCLIF THE BIBLE ... 19 NICHOLAS HEREFORD BRUNANBURH ... POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST " THE FIGHT AT MALDON 22 JOHN PURVEY ...
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... Latin forms of learning and religion began to make their way from Ripon , from Wearmouth , from Hexham and Jarrow . The Celtic and the Latin influences mingled . Meanwhile the Irish impulse penetrated into Mercia and East Anglia from ...
... Latin forms of learning and religion began to make their way from Ripon , from Wearmouth , from Hexham and Jarrow . The Celtic and the Latin influences mingled . Meanwhile the Irish impulse penetrated into Mercia and East Anglia from ...
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... Latin book , De Excidio , describes the horrors of the first years of the English invasion , and whose Epistola , addressed to the kings and priests of the Britons , is a fierce and probably an exaggerated indictment . of their rule and ...
... Latin book , De Excidio , describes the horrors of the first years of the English invasion , and whose Epistola , addressed to the kings and priests of the Britons , is a fierce and probably an exaggerated indictment . of their rule and ...
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... Latin ; these are in English verse , with the exception of the eighty - sixth , which is in Latin . As the name Lupus is in it , it is supposed that Cynewulf thus recorded his name . When we meet Cynewulf again he is all changed . He ...
... Latin ; these are in English verse , with the exception of the eighty - sixth , which is in Latin . As the name Lupus is in it , it is supposed that Cynewulf thus recorded his name . When we meet Cynewulf again he is all changed . He ...
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... Latin Writers before Ælfred . When Augustine landed in Thanet in 597 and made Canterbury the first Christian town , he brought with him , to add to the development of English literature , the power , the wisdom , the amal- gamating ...
... Latin Writers before Ælfred . When Augustine landed in Thanet in 597 and made Canterbury the first Christian town , he brought with him , to add to the development of English literature , the power , the wisdom , the amal- gamating ...
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