A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresLongmans, Green, and Company, 1888 - 635 pàgines |
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... verse , a poem in leonine verse on St. Justin's martyrdom , Com- mentaries both on the Old and on the New Testament , and a sort of chronicle of universal history called De Sex Etatibus Sæculi . Alcuin , Eddi Stephanus , and Ethelwerd ...
... verse , a poem in leonine verse on St. Justin's martyrdom , Com- mentaries both on the Old and on the New Testament , and a sort of chronicle of universal history called De Sex Etatibus Sæculi . Alcuin , Eddi Stephanus , and Ethelwerd ...
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... verse . ( 1 ) The Song of Canute . ( 2 ) Archbishop Aldred's curse . ( 3 ) St. Godric's verses . ( 4 ) The Prophecy of Here . Thomas , a monk of Ely , who wrote about 1170 , relates that King Canute was once in his barge on the river ...
... verse . ( 1 ) The Song of Canute . ( 2 ) Archbishop Aldred's curse . ( 3 ) St. Godric's verses . ( 4 ) The Prophecy of Here . Thomas , a monk of Ely , who wrote about 1170 , relates that King Canute was once in his barge on the river ...
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With an Appendix on English Metres Thomas Arnold. were called Leonine verses . The solemn hymns of the Church -some of ... verse was largely used in this country as a vehicle for satire and humour . There is among the publications of the ...
With an Appendix on English Metres Thomas Arnold. were called Leonine verses . The solemn hymns of the Church -some of ... verse was largely used in this country as a vehicle for satire and humour . There is among the publications of the ...
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... verse , by Chrétien of Troyes . This romance , which , with its continuations , extended to more than 20,000 lines , was founded on the prose Tristan of Luc de Gast , and probably written between 1190 and 1198 , in which year Chrétien ...
... verse , by Chrétien of Troyes . This romance , which , with its continuations , extended to more than 20,000 lines , was founded on the prose Tristan of Luc de Gast , and probably written between 1190 and 1198 , in which year Chrétien ...
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... verse for the entertainment of the laity . In verse -because few laymen could read , and a history in rime was easier and more agreeable to remember , both for the reciter and for the hearer . We do not hear of prose chronicles in ...
... verse for the entertainment of the laity . In verse -because few laymen could read , and a history in rime was easier and more agreeable to remember , both for the reciter and for the hearer . We do not hear of prose chronicles in ...
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