A First Sketch of English LiteratureCassell, 1892 - 1104 páginas |
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... Latin words , Anglus and Saxo . Anglus was only a Latin form of Englisc ( pronounced English ) , the name by which the people called itself ; and Saxon was the name which others gave to them . This might readily come into some formal ...
... Latin words , Anglus and Saxo . Anglus was only a Latin form of Englisc ( pronounced English ) , the name by which the people called itself ; and Saxon was the name which others gave to them . This might readily come into some formal ...
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... Latin verse , chiefly in praise of chastity , survive , but those English songs of his which were still on the lips of the people in King Alfred's day are lost to us . William of Malmesbury has re- corded , on King Alfred's authority ...
... Latin verse , chiefly in praise of chastity , survive , but those English songs of his which were still on the lips of the people in King Alfred's day are lost to us . William of Malmesbury has re- corded , on King Alfred's authority ...
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... Latin description of the earth , says he had spoken with Culdees , or Celtic missionary priests , whose zeal penetrated beyond the Faroes to distant Iceland . The livelier genius , also , of the Celt , with its audacity of thought , is ...
... Latin description of the earth , says he had spoken with Culdees , or Celtic missionary priests , whose zeal penetrated beyond the Faroes to distant Iceland . The livelier genius , also , of the Celt , with its audacity of thought , is ...
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... Latin certain works ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite , a traditional convert of St. Paul's , and first Bishop of Athens . These were mystical , half Platonic writings , first produced at an Eastern Church conference in the year 532 ...
... Latin certain works ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite , a traditional convert of St. Paul's , and first Bishop of Athens . These were mystical , half Platonic writings , first produced at an Eastern Church conference in the year 532 ...
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... Latin had to be recovered , partly because good knowledge is most widely diffused through a land when it is written in the language of the people , Alfred made , or caused to be made for him , translations of the books which had been ...
... Latin had to be recovered , partly because good knowledge is most widely diffused through a land when it is written in the language of the people , Alfred made , or caused to be made for him , translations of the books which had been ...
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