A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... Latin liber , and the English book and leaf . Who does not know that liber means originally the inner bark of a tree ? Book is merely a disguised form of the word beech , into which it easily changes when we tone down k to ch soft ; and ...
... Latin liber , and the English book and leaf . Who does not know that liber means originally the inner bark of a tree ? Book is merely a disguised form of the word beech , into which it easily changes when we tone down k to ch soft ; and ...
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... Latin writers . Gildas . AMONG every people the earliest form of literature is the Ballad . The History and the Poetry of a nation are , in their infant forms , identical . When the old Greeks taught , in their mythology , that Memory ...
... Latin writers . Gildas . AMONG every people the earliest form of literature is the Ballad . The History and the Poetry of a nation are , in their infant forms , identical . When the old Greeks taught , in their mythology , that Memory ...
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... Latin , and both containing fiery assaults upon the Saxon invaders . Nennius , thought to have been a monk of Bangor , is said also to have written a History of the Britons . The Latin poems of St. Columbanus , an Irish missionary to ...
... Latin , and both containing fiery assaults upon the Saxon invaders . Nennius , thought to have been a monk of Bangor , is said also to have written a History of the Britons . The Latin poems of St. Columbanus , an Irish missionary to ...
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... Latin Grammar , which he translated from Donatus and Priscian . His Latin Glossary and Book of Latin Conversation are works of merit . But his Eighty Homilies , written in the simplest Anglo - Saxon , for the use of the common people ...
... Latin Grammar , which he translated from Donatus and Priscian . His Latin Glossary and Book of Latin Conversation are works of merit . But his Eighty Homilies , written in the simplest Anglo - Saxon , for the use of the common people ...
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... 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 - Saxon writers in Latin ...
... 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 - Saxon writers in Latin ...
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