The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 Seiten |
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... Beowulf - Other Specimens . - 4 . Poems Didactic and Religious - Extant Specimens -Cadmon's Life and Poems . - 5 . Versification and Style of Anglo - Saxon Poetry , -PROSE . 6. The Living Language freely used - Translations.
... Beowulf - Other Specimens . - 4 . Poems Didactic and Religious - Extant Specimens -Cadmon's Life and Poems . - 5 . Versification and Style of Anglo - Saxon Poetry , -PROSE . 6. The Living Language freely used - Translations.
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... Living Language freely used - Translations from the Scriptures.- 7. Original Composition - Homilies - Miscellaneous Works - The Saxon Chronicle .-- 8. King Alfred - His Works - His Character ... CHAPTER III . THE NORMAN TIMES . A. D. ...
... Living Language freely used - Translations from the Scriptures.- 7. Original Composition - Homilies - Miscellaneous Works - The Saxon Chronicle .-- 8. King Alfred - His Works - His Character ... CHAPTER III . THE NORMAN TIMES . A. D. ...
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... living language . Let us satisfy ourselves as to the importance of these benefits , by looking back to the con- sequences which followed from the want of them in the Middle Ages , consequences which had been yet more evil in the times ...
... living language . Let us satisfy ourselves as to the importance of these benefits , by looking back to the con- sequences which followed from the want of them in the Middle Ages , consequences which had been yet more evil in the times ...
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... living beings to contemplate , may be allowed to re- flect in its mirror all the threads which do not offend or hurt the organs of moral vision . Nor are such representations , if ethically correct , devoid of higher uses than those ...
... living beings to contemplate , may be allowed to re- flect in its mirror all the threads which do not offend or hurt the organs of moral vision . Nor are such representations , if ethically correct , devoid of higher uses than those ...
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... living , one was the Anglo - Saxon , the monuments of which , with its history , will soon call for close scrutiny . The second and third were Celtic tongues , spoken by the nations of that race who still possessed large parts of the ...
... living , one was the Anglo - Saxon , the monuments of which , with its history , will soon call for close scrutiny . The second and third were Celtic tongues , spoken by the nations of that race who still possessed large parts of the ...
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