Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1871 |
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... verse the whole of the sacred history . We are told that he was con- tinually occupied in repeating to himself what he heard , and , " like a clean animal , ruminating it , he turned it into most sweet verse . " + Cædmon thus composed ...
... verse the whole of the sacred history . We are told that he was con- tinually occupied in repeating to himself what he heard , and , " like a clean animal , ruminating it , he turned it into most sweet verse . " + Cædmon thus composed ...
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... verse ; Thorold , who wrote the fine romance of Roland ; Samson de Nanteuil , who translated the proverbs of Solo- mon into French verse ; Geoffroi Gaimar , author of a chronicle of the Anglo - Saxon kings ; and David , a trouveere of ...
... verse ; Thorold , who wrote the fine romance of Roland ; Samson de Nanteuil , who translated the proverbs of Solo- mon into French verse ; Geoffroi Gaimar , author of a chronicle of the Anglo - Saxon kings ; and David , a trouveere of ...
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... verse of the period prior to the Conquest . Perhaps the best means of making ckar the transition of the language into its present form , is to present a continuation of these specimens , extending between the time of the Conquest and ...
... verse of the period prior to the Conquest . Perhaps the best means of making ckar the transition of the language into its present form , is to present a continuation of these specimens , extending between the time of the Conquest and ...
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... verse adopted in his chronicle is shorter than that of the Gloucester monk , making an approach to the octo- syllabic stanza of modern times . The following is one of the most spirited passages , in reduced spell . ing : - 1 Were ...
... verse adopted in his chronicle is shorter than that of the Gloucester monk , making an approach to the octo- syllabic stanza of modern times . The following is one of the most spirited passages , in reduced spell . ing : - 1 Were ...
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... verse of Chaucer is , almost without excep- tion , in ten - syllabled couplets , the verse in which by far the largest portion of our poetry since that time has been written , and which , as Mr Southey has remarked , may be judged from ...
... verse of Chaucer is , almost without excep- tion , in ten - syllabled couplets , the verse in which by far the largest portion of our poetry since that time has been written , and which , as Mr Southey has remarked , may be judged from ...
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