A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... translation will give any one who cannot read Old English a fair idea of the poem and of the movement of Old English verse in general ) is little more than a skilful patchwork of traditional phraseology , a cento of quotations , like a ...
... translation will give any one who cannot read Old English a fair idea of the poem and of the movement of Old English verse in general ) is little more than a skilful patchwork of traditional phraseology , a cento of quotations , like a ...
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... translation of Pope Gregory's Oura Pastoralis . Here Alfred tells us that , when he came to the throne ( 871 ) ... translate such books as are most needful for all men to know into the language which we can all understand ' . Alfred's ...
... translation of Pope Gregory's Oura Pastoralis . Here Alfred tells us that , when he came to the throne ( 871 ) ... translate such books as are most needful for all men to know into the language which we can all understand ' . Alfred's ...
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... translations of the capabilities of Old English as a prose vehicle . In his translation Alfred is hampered by the Latin , and even when he is writing independent of it , should the occasion seem to him to call for a more formal style ...
... translations of the capabilities of Old English as a prose vehicle . In his translation Alfred is hampered by the Latin , and even when he is writing independent of it , should the occasion seem to him to call for a more formal style ...
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... translated into French verse by the Anglo - Norman poet , Wace , and Wace's poem , in turn , was rendered into English by Layamon in his Brut ( circa 1205 ) —the first noteworthy English book to appear after the Conquest , The Normans ...
... translated into French verse by the Anglo - Norman poet , Wace , and Wace's poem , in turn , was rendered into English by Layamon in his Brut ( circa 1205 ) —the first noteworthy English book to appear after the Conquest , The Normans ...
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... translations and paraphrases of the Bible , saints ' lives , and such - like . In the romantic literature of the day the Normans had also a share , and it was in part owing to their agency that the French on the Continent became ...
... translations and paraphrases of the Bible , saints ' lives , and such - like . In the romantic literature of the day the Normans had also a share , and it was in part owing to their agency that the French on the Continent became ...
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