Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . -thumbria were used byCynewulf His corre-spondence was extensive,and the letters to Eng-lish and Welsh kings, tomonasteries abroad, areas honourable to him ashis letters to the abbessesand nuns, who in thosedays had learnt Latin, arecharming, gay, and style is swollen, fan-tastic, and self-pleased,but the goodness andgrace of the man shinethrough it. He was thelast of the Wessex scholarswho
Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . -thumbria were used byCynewulf His corre-spondence was extensive,and the letters to Eng-lish and Welsh kings, tomonasteries abroad, areas honourable to him ashis letters to the abbessesand nuns, who in thosedays had learnt Latin, arecharming, gay, and style is swollen, fan-tastic, and self-pleased,but the goodness andgrace of the man shinethrough it. He was thelast of the Wessex scholarswho at this time did anyliterarj work. Ability and intelligencein Wessex were more em-ployed in organisation ofthe Church and in mis-sionary enterprise than inwriting. Theodore broughtthe whole Christianity ofEngland into unity. Wini-fried or Boniface, whobrought Central Germanyinto obedience to theRoman See; Willibald,one of our first pilgrims toPalestine ; Lullus, Arch-bishop of Mainz, who has made some Englishwas in Latin, and itwho knew the Roman left us a correspondence which proves his influenceover the growth of Christianity and learning inEngland and Europe, were all West Saxons. But. iia
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