Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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... Saxon ancestors . The most brilliant period of Anglo - Saxon litera- ture appears to have been about the reign of Alfred , the patron and cherisher of letters and of every li- beral art . This prince , it is said , could repeat many Saxon ...
... Saxon ancestors . The most brilliant period of Anglo - Saxon litera- ture appears to have been about the reign of Alfred , the patron and cherisher of letters and of every li- beral art . This prince , it is said , could repeat many Saxon ...
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... SAXONS NEAR CAT- TRAETH , IN WHICH ALL THE BRITONS ( OR WELSH ) WERE CUT OFF , SAVE THE BARD AND OTHER TWO WARRIORS . " The men , whose drink was mead , comely in shape , hastened to Cattraeth . These impetuous warriors in ranks , armed ...
... SAXONS NEAR CAT- TRAETH , IN WHICH ALL THE BRITONS ( OR WELSH ) WERE CUT OFF , SAVE THE BARD AND OTHER TWO WARRIORS . " The men , whose drink was mead , comely in shape , hastened to Cattraeth . These impetuous warriors in ranks , armed ...
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... Saxons to Christianity in the sixth century must have produced a strong effect on their poetry . The character of the bard or ... Saxon history succeeded the brilliant reign of Alfred ; and though the scalds and rhymers , who must in all ...
... Saxons to Christianity in the sixth century must have produced a strong effect on their poetry . The character of the bard or ... Saxon history succeeded the brilliant reign of Alfred ; and though the scalds and rhymers , who must in all ...
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... Saxon , to the Danish Saxon introduced by the invaders , must have mar- red its progress . Literature of all kinds was thus at a very low ebb in England , when , at the period of the Nor- man invasion , in the early part of the eleventh ...
... Saxon , to the Danish Saxon introduced by the invaders , must have mar- red its progress . Literature of all kinds was thus at a very low ebb in England , when , at the period of the Nor- man invasion , in the early part of the eleventh ...
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... Saxons , having passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman - Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of strangely - mixed origin , which has ga- thered beauty and strength in repeated crosses of the original Saxon ...
... Saxons , having passed through an intermediate jargon called the Norman - Saxon , became intimately blended in that dialect of strangely - mixed origin , which has ga- thered beauty and strength in repeated crosses of the original Saxon ...
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