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... Language and Literature ; Chaucer , Sketch of his Life ; Chronology of his Writings . - Gower , Langland , Occleve , Lydgate , Minot . - SCOTTISH POETS : Barbour , James I. , Wynton . - PROSE WRITERS : Maundevile , Chaucer , Wyclif ...
... Language and Literature ; Chaucer , Sketch of his Life ; Chronology of his Writings . - Gower , Langland , Occleve , Lydgate , Minot . - SCOTTISH POETS : Barbour , James I. , Wynton . - PROSE WRITERS : Maundevile , Chaucer , Wyclif ...
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... languages , such as the Old Saxon , the Mosogothic , and the Frisian . It is a chapter in Palæontology . Yet , since the present English tongue is in its essential elements derived from the Anglo - Saxon , and since the existence of an ...
... languages , such as the Old Saxon , the Mosogothic , and the Frisian . It is a chapter in Palæontology . Yet , since the present English tongue is in its essential elements derived from the Anglo - Saxon , and since the existence of an ...
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... language of Europe , and which a generous and expansive mind , sick of irrational or semi - rational local usages , and ma- terial isolation , would rejoice to employ . 1 Bedǝ , Eccl . Hist . book iii . ch . 5 . Aidan , a The Venerable ...
... language of Europe , and which a generous and expansive mind , sick of irrational or semi - rational local usages , and ma- terial isolation , would rejoice to employ . 1 Bedǝ , Eccl . Hist . book iii . ch . 5 . Aidan , a The Venerable ...
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... language . The earliest in date of all the Anglo - Saxon poems appears to be The Gleeman's Song . It forms a part of the well - known Exeter MS . , given to the cathedral of that city by Bishop Leofric in the time of Edward the ...
... language . The earliest in date of all the Anglo - Saxon poems appears to be The Gleeman's Song . It forms a part of the well - known Exeter MS . , given to the cathedral of that city by Bishop Leofric in the time of Edward the ...
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... language , by which they were surrounded , and especially the inhabitants of Italy . But the Anglo - Saxon , after his conversion at the end of the seventh century , never again applied this name to the subjects of the Roman empire ...
... language , by which they were surrounded , and especially the inhabitants of Italy . But the Anglo - Saxon , after his conversion at the end of the seventh century , never again applied this name to the subjects of the Roman empire ...
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