A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... writing with that use of alphabetic symbols so familiar to us that we do not realize its wonder , lies in the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians . Figures of natural objects abound in that system too , but they have now got a deeper ...
... writing with that use of alphabetic symbols so familiar to us that we do not realize its wonder , lies in the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians . Figures of natural objects abound in that system too , but they have now got a deeper ...
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... written a History of the Britons . The Latin poems of St. Columbanus , an Irish missionary to the Gauls , are spoken of by Moore as " shining out in this twilight period of Latin literature with no ordinary distinction . " 18 SAXON ...
... written a History of the Britons . The Latin poems of St. Columbanus , an Irish missionary to the Gauls , are spoken of by Moore as " shining out in this twilight period of Latin literature with no ordinary distinction . " 18 SAXON ...
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... written with rhymes , like that of many modern languages . Its chief and universal characteristic was a very regular alliteration , so arranged that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the first line beginning with ...
... written with rhymes , like that of many modern languages . Its chief and universal characteristic was a very regular alliteration , so arranged that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the first line beginning with ...
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... written in the simplest Anglo - Saxon , for the use of the common people , are undoubtedly his greatest work . Among these is his famous Paschal Sermon , which embodies the Anglo - Saxon belief on the subject of the Lord's Supper ...
... written in the simplest Anglo - Saxon , for the use of the common people , are undoubtedly his greatest work . Among these is his famous Paschal Sermon , which embodies the Anglo - Saxon belief on the subject of the Lord's Supper ...
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... written - like nearly all his works - in Latin . Its style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn nearly all we know of the early history of the Anglo ...
... written - like nearly all his works - in Latin . Its style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn nearly all we know of the early history of the Anglo ...
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