A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... Oxford , 1691. It was first published separately by Francis Wise , in 8vo . at Oxford , in 1722. And a fifth edition , being the latest , is given in the Monumenta Historica Britannica , 1848. Meanwhile Mr. Thomas Wright , having ...
... Oxford , 1691. It was first published separately by Francis Wise , in 8vo . at Oxford , in 1722. And a fifth edition , being the latest , is given in the Monumenta Historica Britannica , 1848. Meanwhile Mr. Thomas Wright , having ...
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... Oxford . Up to this time absolute illiteracy seems to have been com- mon even among the highest classes of the English . We have just seen that , when Alfred established his schools , they were as much needed for the nobility who had ...
... Oxford . Up to this time absolute illiteracy seems to have been com- mon even among the highest classes of the English . We have just seen that , when Alfred established his schools , they were as much needed for the nobility who had ...
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... Oxford , where he studied the Aristotelian philosophy and the rhetorical writings of Cicero . This is the earliest express mention of the University of Oxford , if a passage in Asser's work in which the name occurs be , as is generally ...
... Oxford , where he studied the Aristotelian philosophy and the rhetorical writings of Cicero . This is the earliest express mention of the University of Oxford , if a passage in Asser's work in which the name occurs be , as is generally ...
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... Oxford , 1699 ; and it is reprinted in Thorpe's Analecta Anglo - Saxonica , 1834 , and again 1846. Other fragmentary or short pieces are a song attributed to Cadmon ( sometimes styled the Elder Cædmon ) in King Alfred's translation of ...
... Oxford , 1699 ; and it is reprinted in Thorpe's Analecta Anglo - Saxonica , 1834 , and again 1846. Other fragmentary or short pieces are a song attributed to Cadmon ( sometimes styled the Elder Cædmon ) in King Alfred's translation of ...
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... Oxford , 1720 ; and there are complete collections by Wilkins , 1721 ; by Dr. Reinhold Schmidt , Leipzig , 1832 ; and by Thorpe ( for the Record Commission ) , 1840. Of the Chronicle , of which there are many manuscripts more or less ...
... Oxford , 1720 ; and there are complete collections by Wilkins , 1721 ; by Dr. Reinhold Schmidt , Leipzig , 1832 ; and by Thorpe ( for the Record Commission ) , 1840. Of the Chronicle , of which there are many manuscripts more or less ...
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