A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... translations from Gaelic manuscripts as old as the fourth century , are now generally looked on as literary forgeries , executed by their clever but not very scrupulous editor . The ancient manuscripts , from which he professed to have ...
... translations from Gaelic manuscripts as old as the fourth century , are now generally looked on as literary forgeries , executed by their clever but not very scrupulous editor . The ancient manuscripts , from which he professed to have ...
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... Translation . Then from the firmament was An all - bright angel Sent from above , A man of beauteous form , In his garb of glory : Who to them came for comfort , And for their lives ' salvation , With love and with grace ; Who the flame ...
... Translation . Then from the firmament was An all - bright angel Sent from above , A man of beauteous form , In his garb of glory : Who to them came for comfort , And for their lives ' salvation , With love and with grace ; Who the flame ...
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... 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 Gregory's Pastorale , and an ...
... 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 Gregory's Pastorale , and an ...
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... 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 , are undoubtedly his ...
... 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 , are undoubtedly his ...
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... translation into Anglo - Saxon of John's Gospel . It was morning on the 27th of May . " Master , " said one of the young monks who wrote for him , " there is but one chapter , but thou canst ill bear questioning . " " Write quickly on ...
... translation into Anglo - Saxon of John's Gospel . It was morning on the 27th of May . " Master , " said one of the young monks who wrote for him , " there is but one chapter , but thou canst ill bear questioning . " " Write quickly on ...
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