History of English Literature: To Wiclif, tr. by H. M. KennedyG. Belland sons, 1904 |
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... Close • 314-324 Lament of the Captive Knight . Laurence Minot and his Ballads . of Book Third , BOOK IV . PRELUDE TO THE REFORMATION AND THE RENAISSANCE . I. - The Anglo - Norman at the Middle of the Fourteenth Cent- ury . English ...
... Close • 314-324 Lament of the Captive Knight . Laurence Minot and his Ballads . of Book Third , BOOK IV . PRELUDE TO THE REFORMATION AND THE RENAISSANCE . I. - The Anglo - Norman at the Middle of the Fourteenth Cent- ury . English ...
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... close of the sixth century , the English tribes had as yet no literature . The use of their runes was much restricted : single signs or short sentences , proverbs , magic formulas , were scratched upon staves , drinking - horns , swords ...
... close of the sixth century , the English tribes had as yet no literature . The use of their runes was much restricted : single signs or short sentences , proverbs , magic formulas , were scratched upon staves , drinking - horns , swords ...
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... close order a long list of earlier and later kings famed in saga , historical , fictitious , and mythical . At the close we hear of the heroic deeds of Offa , king of the Angles , in battle with the Myrgings , and of the long friendship ...
... close order a long list of earlier and later kings famed in saga , historical , fictitious , and mythical . At the close we hear of the heroic deeds of Offa , king of the Angles , in battle with the Myrgings , and of the long friendship ...
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... close of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century , substantially the shape in which it has come down to us . To later transcrib- ers it probably owes little besides modernisation of language and verbal corruptions . Here then ...
... close of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century , substantially the shape in which it has come down to us . To later transcrib- ers it probably owes little besides modernisation of language and verbal corruptions . Here then ...
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... close relation to Weland's son Widia , who is called " Wudga " in the Widsith - poem . What is preserved to us of the Old English epic grants but a very inadequate insight into the history of its develop- ment , but leaves us to imagine ...
... close relation to Weland's son Widia , who is called " Wudga " in the Widsith - poem . What is preserved to us of the Old English epic grants but a very inadequate insight into the history of its develop- ment , but leaves us to imagine ...
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