Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon periodJ.W. Parker, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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... says , in a MS . of semi - Saxon Homilies in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth . It has since been sought there more than once , but without success . Perhaps it was the leaf pasted down in the binding of some MS . which belonged to ...
... says , in a MS . of semi - Saxon Homilies in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth . It has since been sought there more than once , but without success . Perhaps it was the leaf pasted down in the binding of some MS . which belonged to ...
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... says of St. Gregory , -He is ure altor , and we syndan his alumni ; dæt is dat he is ure fester - fæder on Criste , and we syndon his fester - bearn on full - wihte . ( MS . Cotton . Julius , A. x . fol . 71. ) He is our altor , and we ...
... says of St. Gregory , -He is ure altor , and we syndan his alumni ; dæt is dat he is ure fester - fæder on Criste , and we syndon his fester - bearn on full - wihte . ( MS . Cotton . Julius , A. x . fol . 71. ) He is our altor , and we ...
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... says of St. Augustine ( 1. 200 ) — Ne hyrde ic guman awyrn ænigne ær æfre bringan ofer sealtne mere selran lare , - bisceop bremran . I have not heard anywhere that any man ever brought over the briny sea better doctrine , - a more ...
... says of St. Augustine ( 1. 200 ) — Ne hyrde ic guman awyrn ænigne ær æfre bringan ofer sealtne mere selran lare , - bisceop bremran . I have not heard anywhere that any man ever brought over the briny sea better doctrine , - a more ...
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... says of Cædmon and his imitators , * and from some other circumstances , it seems probable that the vernacular religious poetry was composed chiefly during the years which intervened between the age of the poet ( about A. D. 680 ) and ...
... says of Cædmon and his imitators , * and from some other circumstances , it seems probable that the vernacular religious poetry was composed chiefly during the years which intervened between the age of the poet ( about A. D. 680 ) and ...
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... says , " I have endeavoured to com- pose according to the rules derived from the poets , not in a spirit of presumption , but with the desire of exciting the powers of my slender talents , and in the hope of thine assistance therein ...
... says , " I have endeavoured to com- pose according to the rules derived from the poets , not in a spirit of presumption , but with the desire of exciting the powers of my slender talents , and in the hope of thine assistance therein ...
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