Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon periodJ.W. Parker, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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... lands which he had seen in his wanderings , and he concludes with the following reflection- swá scribende ge - sceapum hweorfað gleó - men gumena geond grunda fela , þearfe secgað , ponc - word sprecab , simle súð oppe norð sumne ge ...
... lands which he had seen in his wanderings , and he concludes with the following reflection- swá scribende ge - sceapum hweorfað gleó - men gumena geond grunda fela , þearfe secgað , ponc - word sprecab , simle súð oppe norð sumne ge ...
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... ; he said that the Almighty wrought the earth , the bright - faced plain which water encompasseth ; exulting in victory he set up the sun and the moon , leóman to leóhte land bú [ en ] dum ; Introd . ] 5 THE MINSTREL'S CHARACTER .
... ; he said that the Almighty wrought the earth , the bright - faced plain which water encompasseth ; exulting in victory he set up the sun and the moon , leóman to leóhte land bú [ en ] dum ; Introd . ] 5 THE MINSTREL'S CHARACTER .
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... land ; and adorned the districts of the earth with boughs and leaves : life also he created for all kinds that go about alive . 3. These minstrel - poets had , by degrees , composed a large mass of national poetry , which formed ...
... land ; and adorned the districts of the earth with boughs and leaves : life also he created for all kinds that go about alive . 3. These minstrel - poets had , by degrees , composed a large mass of national poetry , which formed ...
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... lands . The women , in particular , who left their homes with the intention of be- coming nuns at Rome , were sometimes drawn into a less respectable way of living in the towns that lay in their way , and their conduct was more likely ...
... lands . The women , in particular , who left their homes with the intention of be- coming nuns at Rome , were sometimes drawn into a less respectable way of living in the towns that lay in their way , and their conduct was more likely ...
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... land will produce a joke or an epigram ; at one time the follies of contempo- raries will draw a smile , or even a tear ; while , at another , the intelligence of the loss of a friend or the devastation by barbarous enemies of some ...
... land will produce a joke or an epigram ; at one time the follies of contempo- raries will draw a smile , or even a tear ; while , at another , the intelligence of the loss of a friend or the devastation by barbarous enemies of some ...
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