A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... things in Old English poetry - the curious mingling in the same poem of pagan and Christian elements . The pagan poems , for reasons which will soon appear , have often a colouring of Christian sentiment , while the poems on biblical ...
... things in Old English poetry - the curious mingling in the same poem of pagan and Christian elements . The pagan poems , for reasons which will soon appear , have often a colouring of Christian sentiment , while the poems on biblical ...
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... things , of a hundred riddles in Latin verse , from which the English riddles drew some of their inspiration ; and Alcuin ( 735-804 ) , the writer of several commentaries and of many interesting letters , who in 782 was summoned to the ...
... things , of a hundred riddles in Latin verse , from which the English riddles drew some of their inspiration ; and Alcuin ( 735-804 ) , the writer of several commentaries and of many interesting letters , who in 782 was summoned to the ...
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... thing would eventually have happened- English literature made a fresh start . With the coming of the Normans it did ... things , and these not the least important , in that literature are to be found in certain departures of the twelfth ...
... thing would eventually have happened- English literature made a fresh start . With the coming of the Normans it did ... things , and these not the least important , in that literature are to be found in certain departures of the twelfth ...
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... things were disastrous for English literature . It received a set - back from which it took three centuries to recover . Had all those who wrote in French and Latin as sedulously cultivated the mother - tongue , the recovery might have ...
... things were disastrous for English literature . It received a set - back from which it took three centuries to recover . Had all those who wrote in French and Latin as sedulously cultivated the mother - tongue , the recovery might have ...
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... thing in prose ' with which he pretended to be so pleased . The best that can be said of all these works is that they gave writers practice in adapting the new language to poetic ends , and in handling the new rhyming measures . In ...
... thing in prose ' with which he pretended to be so pleased . The best that can be said of all these works is that they gave writers practice in adapting the new language to poetic ends , and in handling the new rhyming measures . In ...
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