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... Roman de Rou - 321 Gaimar's Estorie des Engles - 325 Romance of Iwain and Gawain - 328 Amatory , descriptive , and satirical Poetry - 345 Prose Literature - 352 III . SCIENCE APPENDIX . pecimens of Anglo - Saxon Poetry - $ 53 359 EUROPE ...
... Roman de Rou - 321 Gaimar's Estorie des Engles - 325 Romance of Iwain and Gawain - 328 Amatory , descriptive , and satirical Poetry - 345 Prose Literature - 352 III . SCIENCE APPENDIX . pecimens of Anglo - Saxon Poetry - $ 53 359 EUROPE ...
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... Roman missionaries ; have deplored the subversion of the ancient British church ; and regarded the arrival of the strangers as in every respect portentous of evil to this island . The truth , however , is , that to the Roman ...
... Roman missionaries ; have deplored the subversion of the ancient British church ; and regarded the arrival of the strangers as in every respect portentous of evil to this island . The truth , however , is , that to the Roman ...
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... ( apud Bollandistas , Acta SS . die Aprilis xxiv . ) Turner , Anglo - Saxons , vol . iii , book 7 . chap . 3 , 4 . t See Vol . III . page 177 . oaken planks . The Roman missionaries introduced the use of 8 EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES . Page.
... ( apud Bollandistas , Acta SS . die Aprilis xxiv . ) Turner , Anglo - Saxons , vol . iii , book 7 . chap . 3 , 4 . t See Vol . III . page 177 . oaken planks . The Roman missionaries introduced the use of 8 EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES . Page.
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Samuel Astley Dunham. oaken planks . The Roman missionaries introduced the use of stone ; but though the example was soon diffused throughout the country , the stone continued for some time longer to be unhewn and uncemented ; the work ...
Samuel Astley Dunham. oaken planks . The Roman missionaries introduced the use of stone ; but though the example was soon diffused throughout the country , the stone continued for some time longer to be unhewn and uncemented ; the work ...
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... Roman , however he might have de- generated from the ancient glory of his country , could not fail to preserve the knowledge of some arts : with such models before him , splendid even in their decay , they could never entirely forget ...
... Roman , however he might have de- generated from the ancient glory of his country , could not fail to preserve the knowledge of some arts : with such models before him , splendid even in their decay , they could never entirely forget ...
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abbot Acta Sanctorum Alcuin Aldhelm ancient Anglo-Saxon Annales Anselm appears apud archbishop authority barons Becket Bede Beowulf biographer bishops Cædmon canons Canterbury celebrated century Christian church clergy Constitutions of Clarendon court crown death dignity doubt duty earth ecclesiastical enemies England English equally evidently excommunicated fact father favour Giraldus Giraldus Cambrensis Grendel Henry Henry's holy honour Hrothgar justice king king's knights labours Lanfranc learned less Lingard lord Merlin monarch monastery monks nature necnon Nennius never noble Norman observed opinions papal poem poet poetry pontiff pope prelates present priest primate prince quæ Ranulf de Broc reader received reign religion reply Roman Rome royal saints Sanctorum Saxon Scriptures secular sir Kay soon spirit temporal thee thing Thomæ Thomas à Becket thou tion translation Turner vassals Vita ejusdem Vortigern William of Malmesbury words writers Wycliffe
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Page 103 - Jesus saith unto her. Woman, what have I to do with thee ? mine hour is not yet come.
Page 104 - above measure, through the abundance of the revela" tions, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the " messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be ex
Page 117 - L, fifty; C, one hundred; D, five hundred ; M, one thousand.
Page 105 - Christ : whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Page 104 - Verily verily I say unto you ; Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Page 96 - It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ;' and many other things from the Scripture, in which he admonished us to arouse ourselves from the sleep of the mind. He also recited something in our English language; for he was very learned in our songs; and, putting his thoughts into English verse, he spoke it with compunction.
Page 72 - And grease to smear hem all about : He weeneth to live hem to wear : But, by my soul I dare well swear, His wretched life he shall for-let,
Page 346 - Lenten ys come with love to toune, With blosmen ant with briddes roune, That al this blisse bryngeth : Dayes-eyes in this dales; Notes suete of nyhtegales; 5 Uch foul song singeth.
Page 15 - Having received which answer, Bcdc tells us, he began immediately to sing, in praise of God the Creator, verses of which this is the sense: "Now we ought to praise the Author of the heavenly kingdom, the power of the Creator and his counsel, the deeds of the Father of glory : how he, though the eternal God, became the Author of all marvels ; omnipotent Guardian, who created for the sons of men, first heaven for their roof, and then the earth.
Page 62 - ... the close of the tenth, or the beginning of the eleventh century.