His earliest work reflected heavy influences from English and continental writers.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

It was confirmed in 2010 that these remains belong to her — one of the earliest members of the English royal family.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

He argued that the term bretwalda " falls into line with the other evidence which points to the Germanic origin of the earliest English institutions ".

All the earliest English criminal trials involved wholly extraordinary and arbitrary courts without any settled law to apply, whereas the civil ( delictual ) law operated in a highly developed and consistent manner ( except where a King wanted to raise money by selling a new form of writ ).

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

The earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary ( from 1842 ) is " chipmonk ," but " chipmunk " appears in several books from the 1820s and 1830s.

The Oxford English Dictionary says its earliest quotation for " clipper " is from 1830.

Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and, along with others such as Richardson, is among the founders of the English novel.

The earliest known usage in print of the English term deist is 1621,

In the late mid-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from Queen Mary I, some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged.

The earliest English record of the kingdom dates to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which noted the arrival of Bishop ( later Saint ) Mellitus in London in 604.

The earliest known use of an expert witness in English law came in 1782, when a court that was hearing litigation relating to the silting-up of Wells harbour in Norfolk accepted evidence from a leading civil engineer, John Smeaton.

The Oxford English Dictionary refers to " Messrs. the Great Unwashed " in Lytton's Paul Clifford ( 1830 ), as the earliest instance.

This led to the publication of his earliest surviving tract, which criticised the English church's suppression of the Puritan clergy.

The earliest English examples of the personification of Christmas are apparently those in carols of the 15th century.

The earliest use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1853.

Thomas Cannon wrote what may be the earliest published defence of homosexuality in English, Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd ( 1749 ).

The earliest cited English usage in connection with marital status is from a manuscript of c. 1200, when Mary ( mother of Jesus ) is described as “ handfast ( to ) a good man called Joseph ”.

The earliest term for this in English was hony moone, which was recorded as early as 1546.

The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.

This Bragi was reckoned as the first skaldic poet, and was certainly the earliest skaldic poet then remembered by name whose verse survived in memory.

However this first verse does not occur in the earliest known version from the Guodian Chu Slips and there is speculation that it may have been added by later commentators.

The earliest of the prose can be dated on linguistic grounds to the 9th century, and some of the verse may be as old as the 6th century.

His earliest notice is in Paul's Epistle to Philemon, verse 24.

The earliest verse translation ( by V. L.

His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889 and those slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Pre-Raphaelite poets.

Although derived from a text written more than a century later, it is thought by some historians that the earliest Scots verse written in Scotland dates from this time: Quhen Alexander our kynge was dede, That Scotland lede in lauche and le, Away was sons of alle and brede, Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle. Our gold was changit into lede. Christ, born in virgynyte, Succoure Scotland, and ramede, That stade is in perplexite.

One of his earliest works, " Timbuctoo " ( 1829 ), contained his burlesque upon the subject set for the Cambridge Chancellor's medal for English verse, ( the contest was won by Tennyson with " Timbuctoo ").

The earliest preserved examples of Old Norse literature are the Eddic poems, the oldest of which may have been composed in early 9th century Norway drawing on the common Germanic tradition of alliterative verse.

The three earliest versions are found in The Lays of Beleriand: In alliterative verse ( circa 1918-1920s ), in chapter 2, " Poems Early Abandoned ".

His success as a writer was coeval with his earliest publication ; his Comical Tales in verse, poems that recall the Broad Grins that Colman the younger brought out a decade later, took the town by storm, and the struggling young poet found himself a popular favourite at twenty-one.

The earliest demo of the song, recorded in Almería, had no refrain and only one verse: " There's no one on my wavelength / I mean, it's either too high or too low / That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right / I mean it's not too bad ".

Hall's earliest published verse appeared in a collection of elegies on the death of Dr. William Whitaker, to which he contributed the only English poem ( 1596 ).

Chamisso's earliest writings, which include a verse translation of the tragedy Le Compte de Comminge in which " heilsam " is used in place of " heilig ", show a 20 year old still struggling to master his new language, and a number of his early poems are in French.

Bodenheim began publishing his earliest verse in Poetry Magazine in 1914.

It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse, and some of his earliest work was his best.

The poems of In Hospital are also noteworthy as some of the earliest free verse written in England.

His most noted works include A Discourse of the Adventures of Master FJ ( 1573 ), an account of courtly sexual intrigue and one of the earliest English prose fictions ; The Supposes, ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ), an early translation of Ariosto and the first comedy written in English prose, which was used by Shakespeare as a source for The Taming of the Shrew ; the frequently anthologised short poem " Gascoignes wodmanship " ( 1573 ); and " Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or

These include The Gododdin, considered the earliest surviving verse from Scotland, which is attributed to the bard Aneirin, said to have been resident in Gododdin in the 6th century, and the Battle of Gwen Ystrad attributed to Taliesin, traditionally thought to be a bard at the court of Rheged in roughly the same period.

Its earliest attestation is in Chrétien de Troyes ' late 12th century verse romance Perceval, li contes del graal, which contains the lines:

Caecus is also the earliest known Roman writer of prose and verse.

Alliterative verse has been found in some of the earliest monuments of Germanic literature.

Some of João Gilberto's earliest recordings were less than two minutes long, and some had a single lyrical verse that was simply repeated.

This inscription is among the earliest inscriptions in the Elder Futhark that record a full sentence, and the earliest preserving a line of alliterative verse.