Excerpt from King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius: With an English Translation, and Notes The increasing taste for Saxon literature rendering it desirable that those works which contain the purest specimens of the language of our forefathers should be made accessible to every student, I have been induced to complete that which was so ably commenced by J. S. Cardale, Esq.; but, at the same time, I cannot avoid expressing my unfeigned regret, that this portion of the work did not fall into those hands, ...
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Excerpt from King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius: With an English Translation, and Notes The increasing taste for Saxon literature rendering it desirable that those works which contain the purest specimens of the language of our forefathers should be made accessible to every student, I have been induced to complete that which was so ably commenced by J. S. Cardale, Esq.; but, at the same time, I cannot avoid expressing my unfeigned regret, that this portion of the work did not fall into those hands, which proved their competency to the task, by the publication of a correct and elegant edition of the prose part of King Alfred's version of Boethius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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