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... Containing an account of the wonders of the East . CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES FACSIMILE OF A PAGE FROM CAXTON'S SECOND EDITION OF 85 Printed about 1484 . THE INTERIOR OF THE SWAN THEATRE , ABOUT 1596 . 123 From a sketch , in the ...
... Containing an account of the wonders of the East . CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES FACSIMILE OF A PAGE FROM CAXTON'S SECOND EDITION OF 85 Printed about 1484 . THE INTERIOR OF THE SWAN THEATRE , ABOUT 1596 . 123 From a sketch , in the ...
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... contains some names which mark a later gener- ation and prove the interpolation of a later hand . " Thus wandering , they who shape songs for men Pass over many lands , and tell their need , And speak their thanks , and ever , south or ...
... contains some names which mark a later gener- ation and prove the interpolation of a later hand . " Thus wandering , they who shape songs for men Pass over many lands , and tell their need , And speak their thanks , and ever , south or ...
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... contains the apocryphal history of Judith and Holofernes . III . ANGLO - SAXON PROSE . as a Liter- The earliest monuments of our literature we have found to be in verse . This happens natu- Verse pre- rally . In the first place ...
... contains the apocryphal history of Judith and Holofernes . III . ANGLO - SAXON PROSE . as a Liter- The earliest monuments of our literature we have found to be in verse . This happens natu- Verse pre- rally . In the first place ...
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... 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 the Great ...
... 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 the Great ...
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... contains a translation of that frag- ment . The Battle of Brunnanburh , too , is found among the poems of Tennyson . The Exeter Book has been translated by Israel Gollancz ( Early English Text Society ) . Bede's account of the poet ...
... contains a translation of that frag- ment . The Battle of Brunnanburh , too , is found among the poems of Tennyson . The Exeter Book has been translated by Israel Gollancz ( Early English Text Society ) . Bede's account of the poet ...
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