Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 1Gould and Lincoln, 1856 |
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... Latin and in the native tongue . * HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British parentage , living in the ...
... Latin and in the native tongue . * HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British parentage , living in the ...
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... Latin verse , nor rhymed , but that the sole peculiarity which distin- guishes it from prose is what Mr Wright calls a very regular alliteration , so arranged , that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the line be ...
... Latin verse , nor rhymed , but that the sole peculiarity which distin- guishes it from prose is what Mr Wright calls a very regular alliteration , so arranged , that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the line be ...
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... Latin , which renders it less necessary to speak parti- cularly of them in this place . Our subsequent lite- rary history is formed of comparatively obscure names , until it presents to us the enlightened and amiable King ALFRED ( 848 ...
... Latin , which renders it less necessary to speak parti- cularly of them in this place . Our subsequent lite- rary history is formed of comparatively obscure names , until it presents to us the enlightened and amiable King ALFRED ( 848 ...
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... Latin by a monk named GEOFFREY OF MON- MOUTH , in which the affairs of Britain were traced with all possible gravity through a series of ima- ginary kings , beginning with Brutus of Troy , and ending with Cadwallader , who was said to ...
... Latin by a monk named GEOFFREY OF MON- MOUTH , in which the affairs of Britain were traced with all possible gravity through a series of ima- ginary kings , beginning with Brutus of Troy , and ending with Cadwallader , who was said to ...
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... Latin by learned ecclesiastics , the principal of whom were John of Salisbury , Peter of Blois , Joseph of Exeter , and GEOFFREY of MONMOUTH , the last being the author of the History of England just alluded to , which is supposed to ...
... Latin by learned ecclesiastics , the principal of whom were John of Salisbury , Peter of Blois , Joseph of Exeter , and GEOFFREY of MONMOUTH , the last being the author of the History of England just alluded to , which is supposed to ...
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