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... series of one hundred riddles in verse , but this is doubt- ful . At least four ambitious works are identified by his own autograph as indisputably his . These are the Life of St. Juliana , the Fates of the Apostles , the Elene , and ...
... series of one hundred riddles in verse , but this is doubt- ful . At least four ambitious works are identified by his own autograph as indisputably his . These are the Life of St. Juliana , the Fates of the Apostles , the Elene , and ...
Page 34
... series , each containing forty discourses , one series presenting the lives of saints recognized by the Anglo - Saxon Church . A translation of the Pentateuch and the book of Job is included in Ælfric's works . The influence of Alfred ...
... series , each containing forty discourses , one series presenting the lives of saints recognized by the Anglo - Saxon Church . A translation of the Pentateuch and the book of Job is included in Ælfric's works . The influence of Alfred ...
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... series of important texts is included in the Library of Anglo - Saxon Poetry , published by Ginn : I. Beowulf , by Harrison and Sharp ; II . Exodus and Daniel , by T. W. Hunt ; IV . Maldon and Brunnanburh , by C. L. Crow ; VI . Elene ...
... series of important texts is included in the Library of Anglo - Saxon Poetry , published by Ginn : I. Beowulf , by Harrison and Sharp ; II . Exodus and Daniel , by T. W. Hunt ; IV . Maldon and Brunnanburh , by C. L. Crow ; VI . Elene ...
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... series of public lectures on the Divine Comedy of Dante , the great world - poet of medievalism , who had died some fifty years before . ences . Thus did Chaucer enter Italy , that country which was foremost in the great awakening of ...
... series of public lectures on the Divine Comedy of Dante , the great world - poet of medievalism , who had died some fifty years before . ences . Thus did Chaucer enter Italy , that country which was foremost in the great awakening of ...
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... series of detached stories is comparatively simple . He presents , in a lovely villa amid the cypresses and olive trees on the hillside overlooking Florence , a gay party of ten lords and ladies who have fled the city be- cause of the ...
... series of detached stories is comparatively simple . He presents , in a lovely villa amid the cypresses and olive trees on the hillside overlooking Florence , a gay party of ten lords and ladies who have fled the city be- cause of the ...
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