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Thenceforward this monk of Whitby spent his life in the composition of religious
poetry . The “ Paraphrase " of Caedmon contained , besides other portions of the
Bible , the story of the Creation and the Fall , the history of Daniel , with many ...
Thenceforward this monk of Whitby spent his life in the composition of religious
poetry . The “ Paraphrase " of Caedmon contained , besides other portions of the
Bible , the story of the Creation and the Fall , the history of Daniel , with many ...
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Much of his scanty leisure was spent in literary work , 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 ...
Much of his scanty leisure was spent in literary work , 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 ...
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The Abbey of Tours , falling vacant just then , became his place of retirement ,
where he spent his learned leisure in training a new generation of scholars , and
in writing most of those books by which his name has come down to us . At Tours
...
The Abbey of Tours , falling vacant just then , became his place of retirement ,
where he spent his learned leisure in training a new generation of scholars , and
in writing most of those books by which his name has come down to us . At Tours
...
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John of Salisbury , who , going to Paris in 1136 , spent several years in attending
the lectures of the best masters there , wrote a book called Metalogicus ,
exposing the absurd and childish INTRODUCTION OF THE NORMAN
ROMANCE .
John of Salisbury , who , going to Paris in 1136 , spent several years in attending
the lectures of the best masters there , wrote a book called Metalogicus ,
exposing the absurd and childish INTRODUCTION OF THE NORMAN
ROMANCE .
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This monk , who was born in 1075 , at the village of Atcham on the Severn , and
spent all his life , after his eleventh year , abroad , was the writer of an
ecclesiastical history , extending from the Creation to the year 1141. His account
of the ...
This monk , who was born in 1075 , at the village of Atcham on the Severn , and
spent all his life , after his eleventh year , abroad , was the writer of an
ecclesiastical history , extending from the Creation to the year 1141. His account
of the ...
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Page 493 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
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Page 148 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
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Page 363 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 210 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven ? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be...
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| Title | A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches |
| Author | William Francis Collier |
| Publisher | T. Nelson and Sons, 1862 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 538 pages |
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