An Historical Sketch of the Progress and Present State of Anglo-Saxon Literature in EnglandLumley, 1840 - 180 pages |
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... with the gay , and inquired of his mother - would she really keep her word ? • Alcuini Epist . , p . 1463 ; Turner , iii . 20 . † Turner , iii . 371 . She confirmed the promise , and put the book into 6 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF.
... with the gay , and inquired of his mother - would she really keep her word ? • Alcuini Epist . , p . 1463 ; Turner , iii . 20 . † Turner , iii . 371 . She confirmed the promise , and put the book into 6 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF.
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... words from the French , before the pe- riod at which its total extinction is said to have been con- templated . There is scarcely a subject of literary history that is less known than the process by which the English language was ...
... words from the French , before the pe- riod at which its total extinction is said to have been con- templated . There is scarcely a subject of literary history that is less known than the process by which the English language was ...
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... words which they use are now obsolete in written compositions . On referring to the Anglo - Saxon writings we meet with them . We find them in the Semi - Saxon pages of Layamon , in the pages of Robert of Gloucester , and in writings ...
... words which they use are now obsolete in written compositions . On referring to the Anglo - Saxon writings we meet with them . We find them in the Semi - Saxon pages of Layamon , in the pages of Robert of Gloucester , and in writings ...
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... words : " A colloquial language , approaching nearly to modern English , seems to have existed concurrently with the more cultivated language which we call Anglo- Saxon , at a period before the Conquest ; and one of the versions of the ...
... words : " A colloquial language , approaching nearly to modern English , seems to have existed concurrently with the more cultivated language which we call Anglo- Saxon , at a period before the Conquest ; and one of the versions of the ...
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... words only , our belief would be stronger . But if whole works could thus be restored to us , all doubts would cease , and our belief in the truth of the narration would be complete . Many MSS . have , in this extra- ordinary manner ...
... words only , our belief would be stronger . But if whole works could thus be restored to us , all doubts would cease , and our belief in the truth of the narration would be complete . Many MSS . have , in this extra- ordinary manner ...
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