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... written Anglo - Saxon literature until after the conversion of the people to Christianity . The earliest productions were poetical , and like all Anglo - Saxon poetry , indeed like all early Teutonic poetry , they are alliterative . The ...
... written Anglo - Saxon literature until after the conversion of the people to Christianity . The earliest productions were poetical , and like all Anglo - Saxon poetry , indeed like all early Teutonic poetry , they are alliterative . The ...
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... of this move- ment and the extent to which it was carried . No written language of Germanic stock , no unwritten dialect of any province or people , shows , even at the present day , a loss of inflexion equal to 34 A BRIEF HISTORY OF.
... of this move- ment and the extent to which it was carried . No written language of Germanic stock , no unwritten dialect of any province or people , shows , even at the present day , a loss of inflexion equal to 34 A BRIEF HISTORY OF.
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... written , much of it , on English soil . On the other hand , the mass of the people spoke only English . Of course there must have been many individuals who knew both languages , and could act as necessary mediators between the great ...
... written , much of it , on English soil . On the other hand , the mass of the people spoke only English . Of course there must have been many individuals who knew both languages , and could act as necessary mediators between the great ...
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... written about 1350 , we find for the first time a large propor- tion of French words . These were followed ( between 1360 and 1370 ) by the popular poem entitled The Vision of Piers Ploughman , a satirical allegory as- cribed to Robert ...
... written about 1350 , we find for the first time a large propor- tion of French words . These were followed ( between 1360 and 1370 ) by the popular poem entitled The Vision of Piers Ploughman , a satirical allegory as- cribed to Robert ...
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... written before 1550 , belong more in language and character to the following period . § 38. Commencement of the Modern Period . With the middle of the sixteenth century , the English enters on a new stage of its history . It did not ...
... written before 1550 , belong more in language and character to the following period . § 38. Commencement of the Modern Period . With the middle of the sixteenth century , the English enters on a new stage of its history . It did not ...
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