Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... tongue . * LANGUAGE is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British parentage , living in the first Teutonic , the half of the ...
... tongue . * LANGUAGE is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British parentage , living in the first Teutonic , the half of the ...
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... tongue a portion of Scripture , which he was required to repeat in verse . Cædmon went home with his task , and the next morning he produced a poem which excelled in beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded ...
... tongue a portion of Scripture , which he was required to repeat in verse . Cædmon went home with his task , and the next morning he produced a poem which excelled in beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded ...
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... tongue , particu- larly a collection of homilies , a translation of the first seven books of the Bible , and some religious treatises . He was also the author of a grammar of the Latin tongue , which has given him the sub - name of the ...
... tongue , particu- larly a collection of homilies , a translation of the first seven books of the Bible , and some religious treatises . He was also the author of a grammar of the Latin tongue , which has given him the sub - name of the ...
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... tongue was cited as the livre Romans ( liber Romanus ) , and most frequently as simply the Romans : as a great portion of these were works of fiction , the term has since given rise to the word now in general use , romance . writings of ...
... tongue was cited as the livre Romans ( liber Romanus ) , and most frequently as simply the Romans : as a great portion of these were works of fiction , the term has since given rise to the word now in general use , romance . writings of ...
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... tongue is lost , and all thine honest cure , 4 For drunkenness is very sépulture Of mannes wit and his discretión . In whom that drink hath dominatión He can no counsel keep , it is no drede.5 Now keep you from the white and from the ...
... tongue is lost , and all thine honest cure , 4 For drunkenness is very sépulture Of mannes wit and his discretión . In whom that drink hath dominatión He can no counsel keep , it is no drede.5 Now keep you from the white and from the ...
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