An Historical Sketch of the Progress and Present State of Anglo-Saxon Literature in EnglandLumley, 1840 - 180 pages |
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... knowledge and conversation excited among the Anglo - Saxons an emulation for literary studies , and drew around them ... knowledge to all England . Their pupils zeal- ously diffused the knowledge they had acquired wherever they went ...
... knowledge and conversation excited among the Anglo - Saxons an emulation for literary studies , and drew around them ... knowledge to all England . Their pupils zeal- ously diffused the knowledge they had acquired wherever they went ...
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... knowledge had extended his fame , and excited the attention of Aldhelm , the celebrated West - Saxon scholar . † Nor was learning confined to ecclesi- astics or to kings only . The Anglo - Saxon ladies were not only learners but ...
... knowledge had extended his fame , and excited the attention of Aldhelm , the celebrated West - Saxon scholar . † Nor was learning confined to ecclesi- astics or to kings only . The Anglo - Saxon ladies were not only learners but ...
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... knowledge which he had acquired by study , and partly from the relations of other persons . The narrative of the voy- age of Ohthere towards the North Pole , and that of Wulstan in the Baltic , are detailed in that work , as these ...
... knowledge which he had acquired by study , and partly from the relations of other persons . The narrative of the voy- age of Ohthere towards the North Pole , and that of Wulstan in the Baltic , are detailed in that work , as these ...
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... knowledge is so ac- ceptable to thee , and thou wilt have it rather than be alto- gether without my books . " And in another , " Sevenfold grace he bestoweth on mankind , whereof I have already written in the English tongue . " He ...
... knowledge is so ac- ceptable to thee , and thou wilt have it rather than be alto- gether without my books . " And in another , " Sevenfold grace he bestoweth on mankind , whereof I have already written in the English tongue . " He ...
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... knowledge , by means of which to detail the history of the language . Although the Saxon Chronicle , after the Con- quest , displays considerable changes in its language , and which appear much greater towards the latter years , the ...
... knowledge , by means of which to detail the history of the language . Although the Saxon Chronicle , after the Con- quest , displays considerable changes in its language , and which appear much greater towards the latter years , the ...
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Page 48 - The Italian is pleasant but without sinews, as a still fleeting water. The French, delicate, but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to open her lips for fear of marring her countenance. The Spanish, majestical, but fulsome, running too much on the O, and terrible like the devil in a play. The Dutch, manlike, but withal very harsh, as one ready at every word to pick a quarrel.
Page 31 - madam I may not call you, and mistress I am ashamed to call you, so I know not what to call you, but yet I do thank you.
Page 40 - Euangelistes translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the Saxons, newly collected out of Auncient Monumentes of the sayd Saxons, and now published for testimonie of the same at London.
Page 37 - Antiqvitie, shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord here publikely preached, and also receaued in the Saxons tyme, aboue 600.
Page 148 - ANALECTA ANGLO-SAXONICA.— A Selection, in Prose and Verse, from Anglo-Saxon Authors, of various ages, with a Glossary.
Page 96 - Portland, where we have visited her in her sleeping-room at Bulstrode, surrounded with books and dirtiness, the usual appendages of folk of learning.
Page 146 - The Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth. Anglo-Saxon Period, containing the AngloSaxon Policy, and the Institutions Arising out of Laws and Usages which Prevailed before the Conquest.
Page 93 - Some testimonies of learned men, in favour of the intended edition of the Saxon Homilies, concerning the learning of the author of those homilies, and the advantages to be hoped for from an edition of them. In a letter from the publisher to a doctor in divinity...
Page 17 - William had even entertained the difficult project of totally abolishing the English language; and for that purpose, he ordered that in all schools throughout the kingdom the youth should be instructed in the French tongue; a practice which was continued from custom till after the reign of Edward III and was never indeed totally discontinued in England. The pleadings in the supreme courts of judicature were in French: The deeds were often drawn in the same language: The laws were composed in that...
Page 33 - But yet, according to true nature, Christ is neither bread, nor a lamb, nor a lion. Why then is the holy housel called Christ's body or his blood, if it...