A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... Celtic people , a branch of the same race which inhabited France and Spain . The Celts of Great Britain were known to the Greeks as early as 300 B.C. , when Pytheas , a Greek navigator and geographer , visited them ; and a Greek writer ...
... Celtic people , a branch of the same race which inhabited France and Spain . The Celts of Great Britain were known to the Greeks as early as 300 B.C. , when Pytheas , a Greek navigator and geographer , visited them ; and a Greek writer ...
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... Celtic inhabitants , weakened by three centuries of civilized life , were left to struggle unaided against the pirate bands of Jutes , Saxons , and Angles , which appeared every spring in increas- ing numbers upon their coast . The Celts ...
... Celtic inhabitants , weakened by three centuries of civilized life , were left to struggle unaided against the pirate bands of Jutes , Saxons , and Angles , which appeared every spring in increas- ing numbers upon their coast . The Celts ...
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... Celtic leader , that cycle of stories which was to prove so fruitful of poetry both in France and England , the legends of Arthur , founder of the Round Table , and de- fender of the western Britons against the weakening power of Rome ...
... Celtic leader , that cycle of stories which was to prove so fruitful of poetry both in France and England , the legends of Arthur , founder of the Round Table , and de- fender of the western Britons against the weakening power of Rome ...
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... Celtic and Latin , were in themselves slight ; but they are important as the beginnings of a process by which , gathering successively from many sources , English became the richest of modern languages . II . THE LITERATURE OF ...
... Celtic and Latin , were in themselves slight ; but they are important as the beginnings of a process by which , gathering successively from many sources , English became the richest of modern languages . II . THE LITERATURE OF ...
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... Celtic missionaries from Ireland . Two are famous because of their connection with literature - Jarrow and Whitby . At Jarrow lived and died Baeda , known as the " Venerable Bede , " a gentle , laborious scholar in whom all the learning ...
... Celtic missionaries from Ireland . Two are famous because of their connection with literature - Jarrow and Whitby . At Jarrow lived and died Baeda , known as the " Venerable Bede , " a gentle , laborious scholar in whom all the learning ...
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