A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 էջ |
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... chiefly translations into Anglo - Saxon . His chief works were his versions of Bede's History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , and Boethius on the Consolation of Philosophy . Translations of Orosius , of Pope Gregory's Pastorale , and an ...
... chiefly translations into Anglo - Saxon . His chief works were his versions of Bede's History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , and Boethius on the Consolation of Philosophy . Translations of Orosius , of Pope Gregory's Pastorale , and an ...
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... chiefly the productions of the cloister . ALDHELM . - Most ancient of the Anglo - Saxon writers in Latin was Aldhelm , Abbot of Malmesbury and Bishop of Sherborn . He was born in Wessex about 656 , of the best blood in the land . His ...
... chiefly the productions of the cloister . ALDHELM . - Most ancient of the Anglo - Saxon writers in Latin was Aldhelm , Abbot of Malmesbury and Bishop of Sherborn . He was born in Wessex about 656 , of the best blood in the land . His ...
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... chiefly against the Church and the clergy . The chief use of Latin at this time was in the compilation of the Chronicles or historical records . We owe much to the patient monks , whose pens traced weary page after page of these old ...
... chiefly against the Church and the clergy . The chief use of Latin at this time was in the compilation of the Chronicles or historical records . We owe much to the patient monks , whose pens traced weary page after page of these old ...
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... chiefly to the musician . The song was dropped , and so were the gestures . The Poet took up the song ; the Juggler and Tumbler took up the bodily movements ; while the Minstrel remained a player of music only . Had Alfred Tennyson ...
... chiefly to the musician . The song was dropped , and so were the gestures . The Poet took up the song ; the Juggler and Tumbler took up the bodily movements ; while the Minstrel remained a player of music only . Had Alfred Tennyson ...
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... medieval manuscripts were adorned , that the taste and labour of the illuminators were chiefly bestowed . Angelic and human figures , birds , beasts , and fishes , flowers , shells , SPLENDOURS OF ILLUMINATION . 43 and leaves , were all.
... medieval manuscripts were adorned , that the taste and labour of the illuminators were chiefly bestowed . Angelic and human figures , birds , beasts , and fishes , flowers , shells , SPLENDOURS OF ILLUMINATION . 43 and leaves , were all.
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