A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... prose a calm account of early Irish history , are the Annals of Tigernach and of the Four Masters of Ulster . The very scanty remains of the Scottish Gaelic are of much later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian ...
... prose a calm account of early Irish history , are the Annals of Tigernach and of the Four Masters of Ulster . The very scanty remains of the Scottish Gaelic are of much later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian ...
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... Who the flame scattered ( Holy and heaven - bright ) Of the hot fire , Swept it and dashed away , Through his great might , The beams of flame ; So that their bodies were not Injured aught . ALFRED THE GREAT . 21 ANGLO - SAXON PROSE .
... Who the flame scattered ( Holy and heaven - bright ) Of the hot fire , Swept it and dashed away , Through his great might , The beams of flame ; So that their bodies were not Injured aught . ALFRED THE GREAT . 21 ANGLO - SAXON PROSE .
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William Francis Collier. ALFRED THE GREAT . 21 ANGLO - SAXON PROSE . ALFRED . - King Alfred is the leading writer of Anglo - Saxon prose , whose works remain . The Welshman Asser has preserved for us an account of this royal scholar's ...
William Francis Collier. ALFRED THE GREAT . 21 ANGLO - SAXON PROSE . ALFRED . - King Alfred is the leading writer of Anglo - Saxon prose , whose works remain . The Welshman Asser has preserved for us an account of this royal scholar's ...
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... prose that remain . LATIN WORKS . The 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 ...
... prose that remain . LATIN WORKS . The 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 ...
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... prose and verse . The great subject of these Latin works was theology , as was natural from the circumstance that they were chiefly the productions of the cloister . ALDHELM . - Most ancient of the Anglo - Saxon writers in Latin was ...
... prose and verse . The great subject of these Latin works was theology , as was natural from the circumstance that they were chiefly the productions of the cloister . ALDHELM . - Most ancient of the Anglo - Saxon writers in Latin was ...
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