A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman ConquestGriffin, Bohn, 1861 |
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... observes , are " written in very easy Anglo - Saxon , and form on that account the best book for the student who is beginning to study the language . " THE NORMAN CONQUEST . The year 1066 is memorable as ORIGINAL ENGLISH . 41.
... observes , are " written in very easy Anglo - Saxon , and form on that account the best book for the student who is beginning to study the language . " THE NORMAN CONQUEST . The year 1066 is memorable as ORIGINAL ENGLISH . 41.
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... observes a writer who has illustrated this subject with a pro- fusion of curious learning , " patronized and loved letters . He filled the bishoprics and abbacies of England with the most learned of his countrymen , who had been ...
... observes a writer who has illustrated this subject with a pro- fusion of curious learning , " patronized and loved letters . He filled the bishoprics and abbacies of England with the most learned of his countrymen , who had been ...
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... observes that " anachronisms which merely impeach the accuracy of the historian are entirely fatal to autobiography . " In none of our chroniclers anterior to the fourteenth century , the reviewer asserts , is there a single line to be ...
... observes that " anachronisms which merely impeach the accuracy of the historian are entirely fatal to autobiography . " In none of our chroniclers anterior to the fourteenth century , the reviewer asserts , is there a single line to be ...
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... observes : " Some notices are extracted from Bede . The facts of which the original sources cannot be ascertained are very few , but important , and occur principally in the early part of this history . They are generally of that class ...
... observes : " Some notices are extracted from Bede . The facts of which the original sources cannot be ascertained are very few , but important , and occur principally in the early part of this history . They are generally of that class ...
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... observes , " has retained and quoted a sufficient number of Anglo - Saxonisms , and of Anglo - Saxon phrases , to show that he was in possession of Saxon materials , which he consulted to the best of his ability . He has not used them ...
... observes , " has retained and quoted a sufficient number of Anglo - Saxonisms , and of Anglo - Saxon phrases , to show that he was in possession of Saxon materials , which he consulted to the best of his ability . He has not used them ...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., 1 tomas George Lillie Craik Visos knygos peržiūra - 1863 |
A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language ... George Lillie Craik Visos knygos peržiūra - 1861 |
A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., 1 tomas George Lillie Craik Visos knygos peržiūra - 1864 |
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afterwards ancient Anglo-Saxon appears bishop cæsura called Canterbury Canterbury Tales Celtic character Chaucer Chronicle composition dialect earliest early edition Edward England English English language entitled fourteenth century France Frederic Madden French Geoffrey Geoffrey of Monmouth Greek hath Henry Henry II Hist History House of Fame John king language Latin latter Layamon learned least Library lines literature Lond London Lord manuscript metrical romances modern monk native Norman Conquest Nott original Ormulum Oxford Paris passage perhaps Piers Piers Ploughman Ploughman poem poet poetical poetry preserved printed probably prose published reign remarkable rhyme Richard Ritson Robert Robert of Gloucester Saint Saxon says seems song specimen speech spirit style supposed syllables Tale thing thirteenth century thou tion tongue translation trouvères twelfth century Tyrwhitt verse versification vols volume Warton words writer written
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