A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... seen , by Christian scholars , who would , as far as possible , eliminate all references to heathen deities and substitute the conceptions of the Christian faith . We have abundant evidence of the continued popularity of the old poetry ...
... seen , by Christian scholars , who would , as far as possible , eliminate all references to heathen deities and substitute the conceptions of the Christian faith . We have abundant evidence of the continued popularity of the old poetry ...
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... seen how the vocabulary of the heroic poetry was adapted to religious themes , as in the opening of Andreas , often with little change . Yet , in spite of the frequent employment of a conven- tional poetic diction , the Old English ...
... seen how the vocabulary of the heroic poetry was adapted to religious themes , as in the opening of Andreas , often with little change . Yet , in spite of the frequent employment of a conven- tional poetic diction , the Old English ...
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... seen again in such a passage as this , from the description of the whale : Ceðegrande is a fis De moste dat in water is ; Dat du wuldes seien get , Gef du it soge wan it flet , Dat it were an eilond Dat sete one de se sond . The more ...
... seen again in such a passage as this , from the description of the whale : Ceðegrande is a fis De moste dat in water is ; Dat du wuldes seien get , Gef du it soge wan it flet , Dat it were an eilond Dat sete one de se sond . The more ...
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... seen , had been early told in the thirteenth - century Bestiary , and are to be told again in the verse of Holland and Henryson . The French Roman de Renart supplies the material of the early English metrical poem , The Vox and the Wolf ...
... seen , had been early told in the thirteenth - century Bestiary , and are to be told again in the verse of Holland and Henryson . The French Roman de Renart supplies the material of the early English metrical poem , The Vox and the Wolf ...
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... seen , one of the distinctive marks of est Eng Middle English poetry was the triumph of the new metres , lish Lyric . and nowhere is that triumph more complete than in the lyrics of the period . Yet their interest , unlike that of ...
... seen , one of the distinctive marks of est Eng Middle English poetry was the triumph of the new metres , lish Lyric . and nowhere is that triumph more complete than in the lyrics of the period . Yet their interest , unlike that of ...
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