A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1862 - 423 |
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... wrote all his extant works in Latin . Alcuin , Eddi Stephanus , and Ethelwerd , did the same . But the rough vernacular was employed in popular poetry , and in all such prose writings , as had a didactic purpose which included the laity ...
... wrote all his extant works in Latin . Alcuin , Eddi Stephanus , and Ethelwerd , did the same . But the rough vernacular was employed in popular poetry , and in all such prose writings , as had a didactic purpose which included the laity ...
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... wrote in Latin . The Anglo- Saxon , too , being no longer taught in schools , nor spoken in the higher circles of society , had lost very much of its original harmony and precision of structure ; and when the annalist found himself ...
... wrote in Latin . The Anglo- Saxon , too , being no longer taught in schools , nor spoken in the higher circles of society , had lost very much of its original harmony and precision of structure ; and when the annalist found himself ...
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... wrote in the Latin language . With the exception of Marianus Scotus and Ordericus Vitalis ( the latter of whom , though born in Eng- land , was of French extraction ) , they all confined them- selves to recording the succession of ...
... wrote in the Latin language . With the exception of Marianus Scotus and Ordericus Vitalis ( the latter of whom , though born in Eng- land , was of French extraction ) , they all confined them- selves to recording the succession of ...
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... wrote , under the title of Historia Major , a history of Eng- land , commencing with the Norman Conquest , and coming down to 1259 , the year in which he died . It is a work which has always been considered as of great authority ...
... wrote , under the title of Historia Major , a history of Eng- land , commencing with the Norman Conquest , and coming down to 1259 , the year in which he died . It is a work which has always been considered as of great authority ...
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... wrote poetry , they used the metres as well as the language of the Latin poets . Thus Geoffrey de Vinesauf , who has been already mentioned among the historians , wrote a Latin poem entitled De Nová Poetriâ , and addressed to Innocent ...
... wrote poetry , they used the metres as well as the language of the Latin poets . Thus Geoffrey de Vinesauf , who has been already mentioned among the historians , wrote a Latin poem entitled De Nová Poetriâ , and addressed to Innocent ...
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