Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon periodJ.W. Parker, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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... written with rhymes , like that of many modern languages . Its chief and universal characteristic was a very regular alliteration , so arranged that , in every couplet , there should be two principal words in the first of Finnesburh ...
... written with rhymes , like that of many modern languages . Its chief and universal characteristic was a very regular alliteration , so arranged that , in every couplet , there should be two principal words in the first of Finnesburh ...
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... writing Latin verse . The abbess Eadburga was one of Boniface's most constant friends ; she seems to have frequently sent * Indicio est quod usque hodie ... written by herself or by her scholars 32 [ Introd . ANGLO - SAXON LEARNING .
... writing Latin verse . The abbess Eadburga was one of Boniface's most constant friends ; she seems to have frequently sent * Indicio est quod usque hodie ... written by herself or by her scholars 32 [ Introd . ANGLO - SAXON LEARNING .
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... written verses , " she 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 ...
... written verses , " she 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 ...
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... written magnificently in letters of gold , and sent to him in Germany , that his converts there might be impressed with a proper reverence for the sacred writings . † A simi- lar volume had , at an earlier period , been given by Wilfrid ...
... written magnificently in letters of gold , and sent to him in Germany , that his converts there might be impressed with a proper reverence for the sacred writings . † A simi- lar volume had , at an earlier period , been given by Wilfrid ...
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... writing , to have been added to the library after the list was first written . The original MS . somewhat dilapidated , remains at Exeter . A care- the catalogue is inserted . The Latin works in this 38 [ Introd . ANGLO - SAXON LIBRARIES .
... writing , to have been added to the library after the list was first written . The original MS . somewhat dilapidated , remains at Exeter . A care- the catalogue is inserted . The Latin works in this 38 [ Introd . ANGLO - SAXON LIBRARIES .
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