The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 páginas |
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... kind : and those literary monuments of the period , which were thought to be most worthy of attention , are described with considerable fulness , both in the hope of exciting interest , and because the books fall into the hands of few ...
... kind : and those literary monuments of the period , which were thought to be most worthy of attention , are described with considerable fulness , both in the hope of exciting interest , and because the books fall into the hands of few ...
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... kind , having an antiquity at all com- parable to this . Indeed their social position was , in all respects , much below that of their western kinsmen . All the earliest relics of their language are metrical . Such is the Albanic Duan ...
... kind , having an antiquity at all com- parable to this . Indeed their social position was , in all respects , much below that of their western kinsmen . All the earliest relics of their language are metrical . Such is the Albanic Duan ...
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... kind that was known among their neighbours , they unquestionably had . Specimens of it have reached us ; but they are so few , and wear so little of a national air , that the stock to which they belonged must have been very small , and ...
... kind that was known among their neighbours , they unquestionably had . Specimens of it have reached us ; but they are so few , and wear so little of a national air , that the stock to which they belonged must have been very small , and ...
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... kind of changes naturally taking place in poems orally transmitted from age to age . But no other works of their class and date have been preserved . Poems celebrating public or warlike events , if called forth at all by the wars with ...
... kind of changes naturally taking place in poems orally transmitted from age to age . But no other works of their class and date have been preserved . Poems celebrating public or warlike events , if called forth at all by the wars with ...
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... kind belong to the tenth century , which gives us several One is a vigorous song on Athelstan's victory over the Northmen , Britons , and Scots , at Brunanburgh ; there are two pieces com- memorating the coronation and death of Edgar ...
... kind belong to the tenth century , which gives us several One is a vigorous song on Athelstan's victory over the Northmen , Britons , and Scots , at Brunanburgh ; there are two pieces com- memorating the coronation and death of Edgar ...
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