A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... lives of the saints began to compete with stories from the heroic past . 1 ' Let the work of God ' , says the letter , ' be read at priestly banquets . There it is fitting to listen to a reader , not to a harper ; to the discourses of ...
... lives of the saints began to compete with stories from the heroic past . 1 ' Let the work of God ' , says the letter , ' be read at priestly banquets . There it is fitting to listen to a reader , not to a harper ; to the discourses of ...
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... live and move ' . This last recitation was after the manner of the new poetry which was becoming popular when Beowulf ... lives , as in Juliana , Elene , Andreas , Guthlac ; from the apocrypha , as in Judith ; or from the services of the ...
... live and move ' . This last recitation was after the manner of the new poetry which was becoming popular when Beowulf ... lives , as in Juliana , Elene , Andreas , Guthlac ; from the apocrypha , as in Judith ; or from the services of the ...
Sivu 9
... lives of the saints , and a grammar ; and translator of parts of the Bible . Elfric in many of his works shows an excessive fondness for alliteration , his prose resembling Old English verse broken down . Another homilist is Wulfstan ...
... lives of the saints , and a grammar ; and translator of parts of the Bible . Elfric in many of his works shows an excessive fondness for alliteration , his prose resembling Old English verse broken down . Another homilist is Wulfstan ...
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... lives , and such - like . In the romantic literature of the day the Normans had also a share , and it was in part owing to their agency that the French on the Continent became acquainted with the Celtic stories which figure so ...
... lives , and such - like . In the romantic literature of the day the Normans had also a share , and it was in part owing to their agency that the French on the Continent became acquainted with the Celtic stories which figure so ...
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... lives . The only work which rises above mediocrity is the Ancren Riwle ( circa 1200 ) , written to instruct nuns in their duties . It offers a lively , and at times unintentionally amusing , account of monastic life , and is informed ...
... lives . The only work which rises above mediocrity is the Ancren Riwle ( circa 1200 ) , written to instruct nuns in their duties . It offers a lively , and at times unintentionally amusing , account of monastic life , and is informed ...
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