A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... wrote countless pages of Latin 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 ...
... wrote countless pages of Latin 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 ...
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... wrote , besides , a long metrical narrative of the bishops and saints of the Church at York ; which , on the whole , is not very elegant Latin , and poor enough poetry . Theology , of course , was his prin- cipal study ; and on this ...
... wrote , besides , a long metrical narrative of the bishops and saints of the Church at York ; which , on the whole , is not very elegant Latin , and poor enough poetry . Theology , of course , was his prin- cipal study ; and on this ...
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... wrote also a Commentary or Set of Lectures on the Rule ; which were pro- bably read by him in the various schools with which he was con- nected . The latter days of the Anglo - Saxon literature were feeble compared with the vigour of ...
... wrote also a Commentary or Set of Lectures on the Rule ; which were pro- bably read by him in the various schools with which he was con- nected . The latter days of the Anglo - Saxon literature were feeble compared with the vigour of ...
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... wrote , in imita- tion of Boethius , his longest prose work , called The Testament of Love . In closing our sketch of Geoffrey Chaucer , the recorded opinions of a great poet and a great critic are well worthy of remembrance . While ...
... wrote , in imita- tion of Boethius , his longest prose work , called The Testament of Love . In closing our sketch of Geoffrey Chaucer , the recorded opinions of a great poet and a great critic are well worthy of remembrance . While ...
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... wrote does not differ much from the English of Chaucer , the chief dis- tinction consisting in the broader vowel - sounds of the Scottish poem . Barbour is thought to have died in 1395 . ANDREW WYNTOUN . - This priest , supposed to have ...
... wrote does not differ much from the English of Chaucer , the chief dis- tinction consisting in the broader vowel - sounds of the Scottish poem . Barbour is thought to have died in 1395 . ANDREW WYNTOUN . - This priest , supposed to have ...
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