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... considerably later date , the chief seat of learning in Christian Europe was Ireland ; and the most distinguished scholars who . ap- peared in other countries were either Irishmen or had received their education in Irish schools . We ...
... considerably later date , the chief seat of learning in Christian Europe was Ireland ; and the most distinguished scholars who . ap- peared in other countries were either Irishmen or had received their education in Irish schools . We ...
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... considerable antiquity . It is now almost * The publication of a continuation of Dr. O'Conor's work , to comprise the Irish Annals from A.D. 1172 to 1639 , has recently been announced as to be undertaken by Mr. John O'Donovan , under ...
... considerable antiquity . It is now almost * The publication of a continuation of Dr. O'Conor's work , to comprise the Irish Annals from A.D. 1172 to 1639 , has recently been announced as to be undertaken by Mr. John O'Donovan , under ...
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... considerable civilization , and all the order of a well - esta- blished political system . Then there are the singular compositions called the Triads , which are enumerations of events or other particulars , bound together in knots of ...
... considerable civilization , and all the order of a well - esta- blished political system . Then there are the singular compositions called the Triads , which are enumerations of events or other particulars , bound together in knots of ...
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... considerable poetical works which the Anglo - Saxons have bequeathed to us ; the others are all fragments or short pieces , such as the song of the elder Caedmon in Alfred's Bede , supposed to be of the latter part of the seventh ...
... considerable poetical works which the Anglo - Saxons have bequeathed to us ; the others are all fragments or short pieces , such as the song of the elder Caedmon in Alfred's Bede , supposed to be of the latter part of the seventh ...
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... considerable attention having been attracted to the language for the last twenty or thirty years , both in this country and in Germany and the North of Europe ; whatever remains to be done is likely to be well performed by the recently ...
... considerable attention having been attracted to the language for the last twenty or thirty years , both in this country and in Germany and the North of Europe ; whatever remains to be done is likely to be well performed by the recently ...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ..., Volume 1 George Lillie Craik Visualização integral - 1844 |
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Página 239 - He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do : and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Página 84 - my lady prioresse; And ye, sir clerk, lat be your shamfastnesse, 840 Ne studieth noght; ley hond to, every man.' Anon to drawen every wight bigan, And shortly for to tellen, as it was, Were it by aventure, or sort,
Página 149 - CHARLEMAGNE'S TRAVELS to CONSTANTINOPLE and JERUSALEM, a Norman-French Poem of the Twelfth Century, now first printed from the original MS. in the British Museum, EDITED by FRANCISQUE MICHEL...
Página 242 - Saxon at this day, yet it is not so Courtly nor so currant as our Southerne English is: no more is the far Westerne mans speach. Ye shall therefore take the vsuall speach of the Court, and that of London and the shires lying about London within Ix. myles, and not much aboue.
Página 231 - I should not leave myself a spoon, there shall no poor neighbour of mine bear no loss by my chance, happened in my house. I pray you be, with my children and your household, merry in God...
Página 262 - I know she swore with raging mind, Her kingdom only set apart, There was no loss by law of kind That could have gone so near her heart. And this was chiefly all her pain...
Página 11 - Roman marriages at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century were childless.
Página 261 - I dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith, ye may it trust, As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many mo' Than I with pen have skill to show.
Página 76 - He wiste that a man was repentant. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may not wepe although him sore smerte. Therfore in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. His tippet was ay farsed ful of knives, And pinnes, for to given fayre wives.
Página 124 - And ye shall understand, that I have put this Book out of Latin into French, and translated it again out of French into English, that •every Man of my Nation may understand it...