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... less note . The first Anglo - Saxon writer of note , who com- posed in his own language , and of whom there are any remains , is CEDMON , a monk of Whitby , who died about 680. Cædmon was a genius of the class headed by Burns , a poet ...
... less note . The first Anglo - Saxon writer of note , who com- posed in his own language , and of whom there are any remains , is CEDMON , a monk of Whitby , who died about 680. Cædmon was a genius of the class headed by Burns , a poet ...
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... less necessary to speak parti- cularly of them in this place . Our subsequent lite- rary history is formed of comparatively obscure names , until it presents to us the enlightened and amiable King ALFRED ( 848-901 ) . * in whom learning ...
... less necessary to speak parti- cularly of them in this place . Our subsequent lite- rary history is formed of comparatively obscure names , until it presents to us the enlightened and amiable King ALFRED ( 848-901 ) . * in whom learning ...
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... less remarkable than his lan- guage . Sometimes he seems anxious to imitate the rhymes , and to adopt the regular number of syllables , which he had observed in his original ; at other times he disregards both , either because he did ...
... less remarkable than his lan- guage . Sometimes he seems anxious to imitate the rhymes , and to adopt the regular number of syllables , which he had observed in his original ; at other times he disregards both , either because he did ...
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... less of a historical document than that of the learned arch- deacon of Aberdeen . It is , in reality , such an ac- count of Wallace as might be expected of Montrose or Dundee from some unlettered but ingenious poet of the present day ...
... less of a historical document than that of the learned arch- deacon of Aberdeen . It is , in reality , such an ac- count of Wallace as might be expected of Montrose or Dundee from some unlettered but ingenious poet of the present day ...
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... less laboured verses in which he moralises on the brevity of existence , the shortness and uncertainty of all ordinary enjoyments , and the wickedness and woes of mankind . This wavering warld's wretchedness The failing and fruitless ...
... less laboured verses in which he moralises on the brevity of existence , the shortness and uncertainty of all ordinary enjoyments , and the wickedness and woes of mankind . This wavering warld's wretchedness The failing and fruitless ...
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Сторінка 188 - show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this— That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. Merchant
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