Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... land and folk and speech from Danish thraldom . The English language held its own when , later , Danish kings did rule the land ; it showed its irrepressible vitality during three centuries of depression under Norman - French supremacy ...
... land and folk and speech from Danish thraldom . The English language held its own when , later , Danish kings did rule the land ; it showed its irrepressible vitality during three centuries of depression under Norman - French supremacy ...
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... land were the Belgæ . To all these men of the second Celtic Wandering the name of ' Brythons ' has been given . When ... lands where the Goidels remained ( Devon , Cornwall , portions of Wales , Cumberland and Westmoreland , and part of ...
... land were the Belgæ . To all these men of the second Celtic Wandering the name of ' Brythons ' has been given . When ... lands where the Goidels remained ( Devon , Cornwall , portions of Wales , Cumberland and Westmoreland , and part of ...
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... land between the English and the Cymry , a great body of living and growing poetry , and of im- aginative story ... lands of the Severn valley , and the first English poem of imaginative importance after the Conquest - the Brut of ...
... land between the English and the Cymry , a great body of living and growing poetry , and of im- aginative story ... lands of the Severn valley , and the first English poem of imaginative importance after the Conquest - the Brut of ...
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... land , let loose on the provincial civilisation of Britain . English Literature Before the English Invasion of Britain . The first Engle - land extended from South Sweden through Denmark and its islands to the lands about the mouth of ...
... land , let loose on the provincial civilisation of Britain . English Literature Before the English Invasion of Britain . The first Engle - land extended from South Sweden through Denmark and its islands to the lands about the mouth of ...
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... land , possessed and sang the great stories of their Continental brethren . Of other stories , both mythical and heroic , we have remains scattered through Beowulf - the myth of Scyld ; the story of Heremod ; the story of Thrytho ...
... land , possessed and sang the great stories of their Continental brethren . Of other stories , both mythical and heroic , we have remains scattered through Beowulf - the myth of Scyld ; the story of Heremod ; the story of Thrytho ...
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