An Historical Sketch of the Progress and Present State of Anglo-Saxon Literature in EnglandLumley, 1840 - 180 pages |
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Page xi
... Poetry ; his Illustrations projected - Heywood on Distinction of Ranks - Sis- son's Grammar - Miss Gurney's Saxon Chronicle - Silver's Lecture on the Study of Anglo - Saxon - Ingram's Saxon Chronicle - Anglo - Saxon Gram- -Bosworth's ...
... Poetry ; his Illustrations projected - Heywood on Distinction of Ranks - Sis- son's Grammar - Miss Gurney's Saxon Chronicle - Silver's Lecture on the Study of Anglo - Saxon - Ingram's Saxon Chronicle - Anglo - Saxon Gram- -Bosworth's ...
Page xii
... Poetry - Appendix B. to Rymer's Fœdera - Wright's Coup - d'œil- Michel's Bibliothèque Anglo - Saxonne - Beowulf , with English Translation by Kemble , 141-161 on- CHAPTER IX . Bosworth's A.-S. Dictionary - Introduction on the German and ...
... Poetry - Appendix B. to Rymer's Fœdera - Wright's Coup - d'œil- Michel's Bibliothèque Anglo - Saxonne - Beowulf , with English Translation by Kemble , 141-161 on- CHAPTER IX . Bosworth's A.-S. Dictionary - Introduction on the German and ...
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... poetic compositions , we knew but little . Whilst the shelves of our libraries are filled with works written in the dark ages , ( as we are apt to term the period preceding the Conquest , ) on every subject of study then known , either ...
... poetic compositions , we knew but little . Whilst the shelves of our libraries are filled with works written in the dark ages , ( as we are apt to term the period preceding the Conquest , ) on every subject of study then known , either ...
Page 5
... poetry . † Theodore re- tained his dignity twenty - one years . He appointed Adrian to the monastery of St. Peter , at Canterbury , who lived there thirty - nine years ; and their presence , we are told , made Kent the fountain of ...
... poetry . † Theodore re- tained his dignity twenty - one years . He appointed Adrian to the monastery of St. Peter , at Canterbury , who lived there thirty - nine years ; and their presence , we are told , made Kent the fountain of ...
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... poetry which she possessed . He who first can read Alfred's attention was the book shall have it , ' said she . attracted by the bright gilding and colouring of one of the illumined capital letters . He was delighted with the gay , and ...
... poetry which she possessed . He who first can read Alfred's attention was the book shall have it , ' said she . attracted by the bright gilding and colouring of one of the illumined capital letters . He was delighted with the gay , and ...
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