A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresLongmans, Green, and Company, 1888 - 635 pàgines |
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... whole work carefully revised . DUBLIN : September 1888 . PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION . THIS work remains what it was at first , -a mere sketch or ground - plan of the vast field of English Literature ; but , as a sketch , the present ...
... whole work carefully revised . DUBLIN : September 1888 . PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION . THIS work remains what it was at first , -a mere sketch or ground - plan of the vast field of English Literature ; but , as a sketch , the present ...
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... whole a considerable mass . By far the larger portion of it dates , both in original conception and in extant form , from a period subsequent to the introduction of Christianity . One poem , of 143 lines , The Gleeman's Song , bears on ...
... whole a considerable mass . By far the larger portion of it dates , both in original conception and in extant form , from a period subsequent to the introduction of Christianity . One poem , of 143 lines , The Gleeman's Song , bears on ...
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... whole season ; There the King of the Goths endowed me with good things : He - chief of the burgh - dwellers - gave me a ring : 2 For it were cut off six hundred shots [ i.e. pieces ] Of beaten gold , reckoning by shillings . That ring I ...
... whole season ; There the King of the Goths endowed me with good things : He - chief of the burgh - dwellers - gave me a ring : 2 For it were cut off six hundred shots [ i.e. pieces ] Of beaten gold , reckoning by shillings . That ring I ...
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... whole history as found in Genesis , concerning the going forth of Israel out of Egypt , and their entrance into the land of promise ; of very many other narratives in Holy Scripture , of the Incarna- tion of our Lord , His Passion ...
... whole history as found in Genesis , concerning the going forth of Israel out of Egypt , and their entrance into the land of promise ; of very many other narratives in Holy Scripture , of the Incarna- tion of our Lord , His Passion ...
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... whole , the literature of the Anglo- Saxons conveys the impression that they were a prosaic and practical race , solid but slow thinkers , without much imagina- tion or mental fire . What they might have made of it , had they been ...
... whole , the literature of the Anglo- Saxons conveys the impression that they were a prosaic and practical race , solid but slow thinkers , without much imagina- tion or mental fire . What they might have made of it , had they been ...
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