A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... learned to string into rude verses the story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen ...
... learned to string into rude verses the story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen ...
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... learned men from France to preside over the leading schools . Much of his scanty leisure was spent in literary work , chiefly translations into Anglo - Saxon . His chief works were his versions of Bede's History of the Anglo - Saxon ...
... learned men from France to preside over the leading schools . Much of his scanty leisure was spent in literary work , chiefly translations into Anglo - Saxon . His chief works were his versions of Bede's History of the Anglo - Saxon ...
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... learned tongue of Europe was then , as it long continued to be , Latin , the writing of which was revived in England by Augustine and his monks . In the stern soldiering days of the Roman period , much Latin had been spoken and read ...
... learned tongue of Europe was then , as it long continued to be , Latin , the writing of which was revived in England by Augustine and his monks . In the stern soldiering days of the Roman period , much Latin had been spoken and read ...
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... a proud one , for he was recognised as chief among the dis- tinguished group of wits and lettered men who encircled the throne of Charlemagne . The name by which he was known in ERIGENA , THE LEARNED LAYMAN . 25 this brilliant circle.
... a proud one , for he was recognised as chief among the dis- tinguished group of wits and lettered men who encircled the throne of Charlemagne . The name by which he was known in ERIGENA , THE LEARNED LAYMAN . 25 this brilliant circle.
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... learned leisure in training a new generation of scholars , and in writing most of those books by which his name has come down to us . At Tours he died in 804 . The Letters of Alcuin give a life - like picture of the great events of his ...
... learned leisure in training a new generation of scholars , and in writing most of those books by which his name has come down to us . At Tours he died in 804 . The Letters of Alcuin give a life - like picture of the great events of his ...
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