A First Sketch of English LiteratureCassell, 1892 - 1104 páginas |
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... lines ( English measure ) of " Beowulf , " the first heroic poem of the Teutonic section of our people . The delight in music - among the old Irish Celts in the music of the harp and tabor , among the old Welsh Celts in music of the ...
... lines ( English measure ) of " Beowulf , " the first heroic poem of the Teutonic section of our people . The delight in music - among the old Irish Celts in the music of the harp and tabor , among the old Welsh Celts in music of the ...
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... lines , the most ancient heroic poem in any Germanic lan- guage . Its hero sails from a land of the Goths to a land of the Danes , and there he frees a chief named Hrothgar from the attacks of a monster of the fens and moors , named ...
... lines , the most ancient heroic poem in any Germanic lan- guage . Its hero sails from a land of the Goths to a land of the Danes , and there he frees a chief named Hrothgar from the attacks of a monster of the fens and moors , named ...
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... lines he had made in his sleep , and continued to make others like them . The vision seems to have been simply the dream - form given to a continuation of his waking thoughts ; and Cædmon may well have believed , accor- ding to the ...
... lines he had made in his sleep , and continued to make others like them . The vision seems to have been simply the dream - form given to a continuation of his waking thoughts ; and Cædmon may well have believed , accor- ding to the ...
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... lines the two words of chief importance began with the same letter , and in the second line of the pair the chief word began also with that letter , that is to say , if the alliteration were of consonants ; in the case of vowels the ...
... lines the two words of chief importance began with the same letter , and in the second line of the pair the chief word began also with that letter , that is to say , if the alliteration were of consonants ; in the case of vowels the ...
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... lines , on the legend of St. Helen , or the Finding of the True Cross by the mother of Constantine . In the Exeter Book we have Cynewulf's legend of Juliana , martyr in the days of Emperor Maximian , and a series of poems which have ...
... lines , on the legend of St. Helen , or the Finding of the True Cross by the mother of Constantine . In the Exeter Book we have Cynewulf's legend of Juliana , martyr in the days of Emperor Maximian , and a series of poems which have ...
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