A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... spent his life in the composition of religious poetry . The " Paraphrase " of Caedmon contained , besides other portions of the Bible , the story of the Creation and the Fall , the history of Daniel , with many passages in the life and ...
... spent his life in the composition of religious poetry . The " Paraphrase " of Caedmon contained , besides other portions of the Bible , the story of the Creation and the Fall , the history of Daniel , with many passages in the life and ...
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... spent in literary work , chiefly translations into Anglo - Saxon . His chief works were his versions of Bede's History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , and Boethius on the Consolation of Philosophy . Translations of Orosius , of Pope ...
... spent in literary work , chiefly translations into Anglo - Saxon . His chief works were his versions of Bede's History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , and Boethius on the Consolation of Philosophy . Translations of Orosius , of Pope ...
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... spent 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 ...
... spent 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 ...
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... spent several years in attending the lectures of the best masters there , wrote a book called Metalogicus , exposing the absurd and childish INTRODUCTION OF THE NORMAN ROMANCE . 29 wrangling which then Anglo-Norman Writers.
... spent several years in attending the lectures of the best masters there , wrote a book called Metalogicus , exposing the absurd and childish INTRODUCTION OF THE NORMAN ROMANCE . 29 wrangling which then Anglo-Norman Writers.
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... spent all his life , after his eleventh year , abroad , was the writer of an ecclesiastical history , extending from the Creation to the year 1141. His account of the Norman Conquest is minute ; and that part of his history nar- rating ...
... spent all his life , after his eleventh year , abroad , was the writer of an ecclesiastical history , extending from the Creation to the year 1141. His account of the Norman Conquest is minute ; and that part of his history nar- rating ...
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