A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... expressions , as when a ship is called an ocean - horse ' ( brim hengest ) or ' a wave - goer ' ( yplida ) . There seems to have been a large store of stock phrases regarded by every poet as common poetic coin on which he might ring the ...
... expressions , as when a ship is called an ocean - horse ' ( brim hengest ) or ' a wave - goer ' ( yplida ) . There seems to have been a large store of stock phrases regarded by every poet as common poetic coin on which he might ring the ...
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... expression of all that English poetry of the three preceding centuries was trying to be , and in achiev- ing this he ... expression , we must glance at the literature written in Latin and French . The writings in Latin , in which ...
... expression of all that English poetry of the three preceding centuries was trying to be , and in achiev- ing this he ... expression , we must glance at the literature written in Latin and French . The writings in Latin , in which ...
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... expression . The heroic age gave place to the age of chivalry , and heroic poetry was displaced by romance . The literature which now made an appeal is a literature in which love and adventure and chivalry are the ruling motives . It is ...
... expression . The heroic age gave place to the age of chivalry , and heroic poetry was displaced by romance . The literature which now made an appeal is a literature in which love and adventure and chivalry are the ruling motives . It is ...
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... expression . As time went on they came more and more under the influence of the more popular romances , and some of the later examples are hardly to be distinguished from pure romance . Of more widespread appeal were the Arthurian ...
... expression . As time went on they came more and more under the influence of the more popular romances , and some of the later examples are hardly to be distinguished from pure romance . Of more widespread appeal were the Arthurian ...
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... expressing his denial of transubstantia- tion , his antipathy to Urban VI , and his general views on church abuses and their cure . These writings show a strong sincerity and an eager desire for the people's good ; but their literary ...
... expressing his denial of transubstantia- tion , his antipathy to Urban VI , and his general views on church abuses and their cure . These writings show a strong sincerity and an eager desire for the people's good ; but their literary ...
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