A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... verse , found in the Annalists and ascribed to the fifth century . The Psalter of Cashel , the oldest existing manuscript of the Irish literature , is a collection of metrical legends , sung by the bards , which was compiled towards the ...
... verse , found in the Annalists and ascribed to the fifth century . The Psalter of Cashel , the oldest existing manuscript of the Irish literature , is a collection of metrical legends , sung by the bards , which was compiled towards the ...
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... verses the story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by ...
... verses the story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by ...
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... verse . CAEDMON , the author of the Paraphrase , was originally a cow- herd near Whitby in Northumbria . Bede tells the story of his inspiration . It was the custom in those days for each to sing in turn , as the harp was pushed round ...
... verse . CAEDMON , the author of the Paraphrase , was originally a cow- herd near Whitby in Northumbria . Bede tells the story of his inspiration . It was the custom in those days for each to sing in turn , as the harp was pushed round ...
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... verse : - Tha of roderum wæs . Engel ælbeorht . Ufan onsended . Wlite scyne wer . On his wuldor - haman . Se him cwom to frofre . & to feorh - nere . Mid lufan & mid lisse . Se thone lig tosceaf . Halig and heofon - beorht . Hatan fyres ...
... verse : - Tha of roderum wæs . Engel ælbeorht . Ufan onsended . Wlite scyne wer . On his wuldor - haman . Se him cwom to frofre . & to feorh - nere . Mid lufan & mid lisse . Se thone lig tosceaf . Halig and heofon - beorht . Hatan fyres ...
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... 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 was Aldhelm ...
... 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 was Aldhelm ...
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