Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... writing , Chair of Bede , - Illumination - a Minstrel , Portrait of Chaucer , Chaucer's Tomb , Tabard Inn , Southwark , Portrait of Gower , Cathedral of Aberdeen , View of Lochleven , · 1 Autograph of Sir Philip Sidney , · 3 Portrait of ...
... writing , Chair of Bede , - Illumination - a Minstrel , Portrait of Chaucer , Chaucer's Tomb , Tabard Inn , Southwark , Portrait of Gower , Cathedral of Aberdeen , View of Lochleven , · 1 Autograph of Sir Philip Sidney , · 3 Portrait of ...
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... written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a missionary of British parentage , living in the first half of the sixth century , and ...
... written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a missionary of British parentage , living in the first half of the sixth century , and ...
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... writing simply , we select a specimen of Anglo - Saxon prose from his Paschal homily , adding an interlinear ... written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till ...
... writing simply , we select a specimen of Anglo - Saxon prose from his Paschal homily , adding an interlinear ... written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till ...
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... written in their language trouveres . In Provence , there arose a series of elegant versifiers , who employed their talents in composing romantic and complimentary poems , full of warlike and ama- tory sentiment , which many of them ...
... written in their language trouveres . In Provence , there arose a series of elegant versifiers , who employed their talents in composing romantic and complimentary poems , full of warlike and ama- tory sentiment , which many of them ...
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... written in 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 ...
... written in 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 ...
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