Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... WRITERS , INTRODUCTION OF NORMAN FRENCH , 1 3 FROM 1400 TO 1558 . POETS . Page THE NORMAN POETS OF ENGLAND , COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT FORM OF ENGLISH , SPECIMENS OF ANGLO - SAXON AND ENGLISH PREVIOUS TO 1300 , • Extract from the ...
... WRITERS , INTRODUCTION OF NORMAN FRENCH , 1 3 FROM 1400 TO 1558 . POETS . Page THE NORMAN POETS OF ENGLAND , COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT FORM OF ENGLISH , SPECIMENS OF ANGLO - SAXON AND ENGLISH PREVIOUS TO 1300 , • Extract from the ...
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... writer composed in his vernacular tongue : it was generally despised by the literary class , as was the case at some later periods of our history , and Latin was held to be the only language fit for regu- lar composition . The first ...
... writer composed in his vernacular tongue : it was generally despised by the literary class , as was the case at some later periods of our history , and Latin was held to be the only language fit for regu- lar composition . The first ...
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... writers to BEDE , usually called the Venerable Bede , who may be allowed to stand at the head of the class . He seems ... writer , and , like Alfred , entertained a strong wish to enlighten the people ; he wrote much in his native tongue ...
... writers to BEDE , usually called the Venerable Bede , who may be allowed to stand at the head of the class . He seems ... writer , and , like Alfred , entertained a strong wish to enlighten the people ; he wrote much in his native tongue ...
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... writers , he was not the solitary light of his age . The national mind and the national language appear , indeed , to have ... writer : Some use straunge wlaffing , chytryng , harring , garrying , and grys- byting . The langage of the ...
... writers , he was not the solitary light of his age . The national mind and the national language appear , indeed , to have ... writer : Some use straunge wlaffing , chytryng , harring , garrying , and grys- byting . The langage of the ...
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... writers in the fourteenth century , greatly resembles that used contemporaneously in England . JOHN BARBOUR . The first of these writers was JOHN BARBOUR , archdeacon of Aberdeen . The date of his birth is unknown ; but he is found ...
... writers in the fourteenth century , greatly resembles that used contemporaneously in England . JOHN BARBOUR . The first of these writers was JOHN BARBOUR , archdeacon of Aberdeen . The date of his birth is unknown ; but he is found ...
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