A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... wrote in 797 to Conwulf , King of Mercia , 1 and , in a more indirect way , in the manner in which the new Christian poetry caught its spirit and imitated its phrases . Moreover , four centuries after the coming of Augustine , there ...
... wrote in 797 to Conwulf , King of Mercia , 1 and , in a more indirect way , in the manner in which the new Christian poetry caught its spirit and imitated its phrases . Moreover , four centuries after the coming of Augustine , there ...
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... wrote vernacular prose and verse , but only their Latin works have survived , being those alone on which they themselves set any value . All this learning , which the monasteries and the monastic schools so sedulously cultivated , was ...
... wrote vernacular prose and verse , but only their Latin works have survived , being those alone on which they themselves set any value . All this learning , which the monasteries and the monastic schools so sedulously cultivated , was ...
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... wrote otherwise . There are passages in the Chronicle , too , which are expressed in the same direct and simple way . The English Chronicle , which is extant in several recensions and takes the history backward to the invasion of Caesar ...
... wrote otherwise . There are passages in the Chronicle , too , which are expressed in the same direct and simple way . The English Chronicle , which is extant in several recensions and takes the history backward to the invasion of Caesar ...
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... wrote in French and Latin as sedulously cultivated the mother - tongue , the recovery might have been much more rapid , but , as it was , the remaking of English versification on the pattern of French- for that is what the new order of ...
... wrote in French and Latin as sedulously cultivated the mother - tongue , the recovery might have been much more rapid , but , as it was , the remaking of English versification on the pattern of French- for that is what the new order of ...
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... wrote a history of the British kings from the time of the reputed landing in England of Brutus , descen- dant of the Trojan Aeneas , to the date of the Saxon invasions . For his purpose he drew on Celtic tradition , or classical story ...
... wrote a history of the British kings from the time of the reputed landing in England of Brutus , descen- dant of the Trojan Aeneas , to the date of the Saxon invasions . For his purpose he drew on Celtic tradition , or classical story ...
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