Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... period of Cymric poetry . When the northern kingdom of the Cymry decayed , and they emigrated to South Wales , the old poetry was applied in the tenth cen- tury to the new dwelling - place and the new fortunes of the Cymry . This is the ...
... period of Cymric poetry . When the northern kingdom of the Cymry decayed , and they emigrated to South Wales , the old poetry was applied in the tenth cen- tury to the new dwelling - place and the new fortunes of the Cymry . This is the ...
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... period are there poems , such as the three Riddles on the storms , which treat of Nature alone , of Nature for her own sake . One of these is placed among the extracts . The finest of them is a long poem upon the Hurricane ...
... period are there poems , such as the three Riddles on the storms , which treat of Nature alone , of Nature for her own sake . One of these is placed among the extracts . The finest of them is a long poem upon the Hurricane ...
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... period of Old English poetry begins , was , in the opinion of a large number of critics , a Northumbrian , but some think him to have been Mercian . It is difficult to conceive how a poet so well acquainted with the sea and the coasts ...
... period of Old English poetry begins , was , in the opinion of a large number of critics , a Northumbrian , but some think him to have been Mercian . It is difficult to conceive how a poet so well acquainted with the sea and the coasts ...
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... period when the English language was still little used by cultivated people there was no lack of literary production in England . The bulk of this was written in Latin , and alike for its quantity , its variety , and the talent dis ...
... period when the English language was still little used by cultivated people there was no lack of literary production in England . The bulk of this was written in Latin , and alike for its quantity , its variety , and the talent dis ...
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... period of literary Latin ( c . 1344 ) comes the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury , the book - loving bishop , a work which those who share his hobby still treasure , and which may remind us that from the twelfth to the fourteenth century ...
... period of literary Latin ( c . 1344 ) comes the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury , the book - loving bishop , a work which those who share his hobby still treasure , and which may remind us that from the twelfth to the fourteenth century ...
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