Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 1Gould and Lincoln, 1856 |
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... Layamon , in his translation of The London Lyckpenny , ROBERT HENRYSON , Page 36 37 37 38 38 38 Wace , executed about 1180 , 5 • Dinner given by the Town Mouse to the Country Mouse , 38 Extract from a Charter of Henry III . , A. D. 1258 ...
... Layamon , in his translation of The London Lyckpenny , ROBERT HENRYSON , Page 36 37 37 38 38 38 Wace , executed about 1180 , 5 • Dinner given by the Town Mouse to the Country Mouse , 38 Extract from a Charter of Henry III . , A. D. 1258 ...
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... LAYAMON , a priest of Ernely , on the Severn , from the Brut d'Angleterre of Wace . Its date is not ascertained ... Layamon's versification is also no less remarkable than his lan- guage . Sometimes he seems anxious to imitate the rhymes ...
... LAYAMON , a priest of Ernely , on the Severn , from the Brut d'Angleterre of Wace . Its date is not ascertained ... Layamon's versification is also no less remarkable than his lan- guage . Sometimes he seems anxious to imitate the rhymes ...
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... Layamon may be regarded as the first of a series of writers who , about the end of the thirteenth cen- tury , began to be conspicuous in our literary history , which usually recognises them under the general appellation of the RHYMING ...
... Layamon may be regarded as the first of a series of writers who , about the end of the thirteenth cen- tury , began to be conspicuous in our literary history , which usually recognises them under the general appellation of the RHYMING ...
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