Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon periodJ.W. Parker, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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... Aldhelm , who died in 709 , is said to have been himself one of the best English poets * Et quidem et alii post illum in gente Anglorum religiosa poemata facere tentabant ; sed nullus eum æquiparare potuit . Bede , Hist . Eccl . lib ...
... Aldhelm , who died in 709 , is said to have been himself one of the best English poets * Et quidem et alii post illum in gente Anglorum religiosa poemata facere tentabant ; sed nullus eum æquiparare potuit . Bede , Hist . Eccl . lib ...
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... Aldhelm . He is said , among other things , to have translated the Psalms into Anglo - Saxon verse , which may possibly have been the same which Mr. Thorpe has so ably edited from the Paris MS . or the groundwork of it . + Cuthberti ...
... Aldhelm . He is said , among other things , to have translated the Psalms into Anglo - Saxon verse , which may possibly have been the same which Mr. Thorpe has so ably edited from the Paris MS . or the groundwork of it . + Cuthberti ...
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... Aldhelm four centuries before , were still preserved in the memory of the people . † 5. The natural result of this mode of transmission was , that the original works of Cadmon and his contem- poraries , as well as the Romances , were ...
... Aldhelm four centuries before , were still preserved in the memory of the people . † 5. The natural result of this mode of transmission was , that the original works of Cadmon and his contem- poraries , as well as the Romances , were ...
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... Aldhelm of Sherburn . 2. The Anglo - Saxons approached the intellectual field which was thus laid open to them with extraordinary avidity . They were like the adventurous traveller who has just landed on a newly discovered shore : the ...
... Aldhelm of Sherburn . 2. The Anglo - Saxons approached the intellectual field which was thus laid open to them with extraordinary avidity . They were like the adventurous traveller who has just landed on a newly discovered shore : the ...
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... Aldhelm , " to console him amidst his labours with these memorials of that holy bishop ; " and on one occasion he asks the abbess Eadburga to cause a copy of the Gospels to be written magnificently in letters of gold , and sent to him ...
... Aldhelm , " to console him amidst his labours with these memorials of that holy bishop ; " and on one occasion he asks the abbess Eadburga to cause a copy of the Gospels to be written magnificently in letters of gold , and sent to him ...
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