A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... portion of this long space of time , or what is commonly called Anglo - Saxon , is no more intelligible to an Englishman of the present day who has not made it a special study than is German or Dutch . The case is even a great deal ...
... portion of this long space of time , or what is commonly called Anglo - Saxon , is no more intelligible to an Englishman of the present day who has not made it a special study than is German or Dutch . The case is even a great deal ...
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... portion of our literature to which the present work is properly speaking devoted is that of the Third Form of the Lan- guage , and may be regarded as commencing with the poetry of Chaucer in the middle of the fourteenth century ...
... portion of our literature to which the present work is properly speaking devoted is that of the Third Form of the Lan- guage , and may be regarded as commencing with the poetry of Chaucer in the middle of the fourteenth century ...
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... portion of the European continent , or what we may call the body of Europe as distinguished from its head and limbs . These Gothic tongues have been subdivided into the High - Germanic , the Low - Germanic , and the Scandinavian ; and ...
... portion of the European continent , or what we may call the body of Europe as distinguished from its head and limbs . These Gothic tongues have been subdivided into the High - Germanic , the Low - Germanic , and the Scandinavian ; and ...
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... portion even of the civil history of the English nation . But Bede also wrote many other works , among which he has himself enumerated , in the brief account he gives of his life at the end of his Ecclesiastical History , Commentaries ...
... portion even of the civil history of the English nation . But Bede also wrote many other works , among which he has himself enumerated , in the brief account he gives of his life at the end of his Ecclesiastical History , Commentaries ...
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... portion of the previous Celtic population chose or were suffered to remain even upon that part of the soil which came to be generally occupied after the departure of the Romans by the Angles , Saxons , and other Teutonic or Gothic ...
... portion of the previous Celtic population chose or were suffered to remain even upon that part of the soil which came to be generally occupied after the departure of the Romans by the Angles , Saxons , and other Teutonic or Gothic ...
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