A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... lines - which has come down to us , of the early heroic poetry of the Teutons . There is no certainty about the date ... line the story is trivial enough , a typical folk - tale ; but it is interspersed with many subsidiary legends ...
... lines - which has come down to us , of the early heroic poetry of the Teutons . There is no certainty about the date ... line the story is trivial enough , a typical folk - tale ; but it is interspersed with many subsidiary legends ...
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... the power of fate . The Wanderer , a poem of one hundred and fifteen lines , is the lament of one who has lost his lord and travels companionless over the rime - cold sea . The whole world is darkened TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST 3.
... the power of fate . The Wanderer , a poem of one hundred and fifteen lines , is the lament of one who has lost his lord and travels companionless over the rime - cold sea . The whole world is darkened TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST 3.
Sivu 4
... lines , describes the lure of the weltering waves ' : a seafaring life is full of hardship , but , for all its misery , it exercises a fatal fascination . The Ruin is the descrip- tion of a wasted city . Two love poems , The Wife's ...
... lines , describes the lure of the weltering waves ' : a seafaring life is full of hardship , but , for all its misery , it exercises a fatal fascination . The Ruin is the descrip- tion of a wasted city . Two love poems , The Wife's ...
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... line is sharply divided into two parts by a pause or caesura , and has four stressed syllables , two in either half - line ... lines are of uneven length . The diction of this poetry differs markedly from that of prose , and abounds in ...
... line is sharply divided into two parts by a pause or caesura , and has four stressed syllables , two in either half - line ... lines are of uneven length . The diction of this poetry differs markedly from that of prose , and abounds in ...
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... line is here practically a six- ( or seven- ) syllabled line with three stresses . It represents the metre of the ... lines consist of fifteen syllables , with a marked pause after the eighth , and represent an adaptation of the Latin ...
... line is here practically a six- ( or seven- ) syllabled line with three stresses . It represents the metre of the ... lines consist of fifteen syllables , with a marked pause after the eighth , and represent an adaptation of the Latin ...
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