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... and authors looked for renown amongst the celebrated of other lands as well as their own . Alfred the Great translated Bede's History and other books * Cædmon lived about 670 . into Anglo - Saxon , and there are examples of 11.
... and authors looked for renown amongst the celebrated of other lands as well as their own . Alfred the Great translated Bede's History and other books * Cædmon lived about 670 . into Anglo - Saxon , and there are examples of 11.
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... translated into French the Brut of Geoffrey of Mon- mouth ; Layamon , a priest , who translated Wace into the popular language of the period ; Robert of Gloucester , the rhyming historian of Lear , Merlin , and Arthur ; Robert De Brunne ...
... translated into French the Brut of Geoffrey of Mon- mouth ; Layamon , a priest , who translated Wace into the popular language of the period ; Robert of Gloucester , the rhyming historian of Lear , Merlin , and Arthur ; Robert De Brunne ...
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... translated it into Latin . + See Dryden's Fables , the Cock and the Fox . See Pope's January and May . other of Chaucer's poems were republished by Wynken de Worde с 3 19 lofty in action and gorgeous in description, appears to ...
... translated it into Latin . + See Dryden's Fables , the Cock and the Fox . See Pope's January and May . other of Chaucer's poems were republished by Wynken de Worde с 3 19 lofty in action and gorgeous in description, appears to ...
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... translated Coluthus ' Rape of Helen , and Museus ' Hero and Leander , and has left us some musical and unaffected songs which are still popular . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY , who , for his accomplishments and the similarity of their positions ...
... translated Coluthus ' Rape of Helen , and Museus ' Hero and Leander , and has left us some musical and unaffected songs which are still popular . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY , who , for his accomplishments and the similarity of their positions ...
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... translating a treaty with Sweden into Latin . " The triumph , uncertain as it was , of his political opinions was but a poor recompense for his domestic afflictions ; and we have in him the painful picture of a great man struggling with ...
... translating a treaty with Sweden into Latin . " The triumph , uncertain as it was , of his political opinions was but a poor recompense for his domestic afflictions ; and we have in him the painful picture of a great man struggling with ...
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