A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... whole people . This short summary does scant justice to the poem . In out- line the story is trivial enough , a typical folk - tale ; but it is interspersed with many subsidiary legends , historical and mythical , and with allusions to ...
... whole people . This short summary does scant justice to the poem . In out- line the story is trivial enough , a typical folk - tale ; but it is interspersed with many subsidiary legends , historical and mythical , and with allusions to ...
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... whole society , telling us , in most authentic fashion , of life as it was lived in far - off heathen days . The rites which are practised in the poem are heathen rites . The hero is the typical Teutonic warrior , the embodiment of ...
... whole society , telling us , in most authentic fashion , of life as it was lived in far - off heathen days . The rites which are practised in the poem are heathen rites . The hero is the typical Teutonic warrior , the embodiment of ...
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Sir Archibald Strong. rime - cold sea . The whole world is darkened by his sorrow ; ' all this tract of earth is full of hardship , and fate changes everything under the heavens ' . The Seafarer , a poem of one hundred and eight lines ...
Sir Archibald Strong. rime - cold sea . The whole world is darkened by his sorrow ; ' all this tract of earth is full of hardship , and fate changes everything under the heavens ' . The Seafarer , a poem of one hundred and eight lines ...
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... whole history of the world from the Creation downwards . By far its most interesting part is that which describes the social conditions of contemporary England ; and when this was put into racy homely English for the benefit of ...
... whole history of the world from the Creation downwards . By far its most interesting part is that which describes the social conditions of contemporary England ; and when this was put into racy homely English for the benefit of ...
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... whole narrative , we know our English writer to be no mere translator , but a great creative artist . His prose is simple , yet its cadence never wearies , and its effects are subtle and various . If we consider its period , it is a ...
... whole narrative , we know our English writer to be no mere translator , but a great creative artist . His prose is simple , yet its cadence never wearies , and its effects are subtle and various . If we consider its period , it is a ...
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