English Literature: From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIII, by Richard GarnettGrosset & Dunlap, 1903 - English literature |
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... latter opinion , which is nevertheless in all probability correct in so far as it maintains that the author of the poem as we have it worked upon pre - existent materials . S w pepod peapse teaf dow V. pisode gumim true IO HISTORY OF ...
... latter opinion , which is nevertheless in all probability correct in so far as it maintains that the author of the poem as we have it worked upon pre - existent materials . S w pepod peapse teaf dow V. pisode gumim true IO HISTORY OF ...
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... latter years . The poetry attributed entirely or in part to Caedmon has come down to us in a single manuscript , discovered by Archbishop Ussher , and now preserved in the Bodleian Library . It nowhere claims to be the work of Caedmon ...
... latter years . The poetry attributed entirely or in part to Caedmon has come down to us in a single manuscript , discovered by Archbishop Ussher , and now preserved in the Bodleian Library . It nowhere claims to be the work of Caedmon ...
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... latter supposition , since the transcriber invariably employed his own form of speech . It is a striking proof of the decay of Anglo - Saxon literature after the Danish invasion that the poems of so remarkable a writer should exist only ...
... latter supposition , since the transcriber invariably employed his own form of speech . It is a striking proof of the decay of Anglo - Saxon literature after the Danish invasion that the poems of so remarkable a writer should exist only ...
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... latter were attracted by their weakness , they found themselves in presence not merely of conquerors but of exterminators . For a time the old civilisation seemed to have totally disappeared ; the inhabitants of the land spoke a new ...
... latter were attracted by their weakness , they found themselves in presence not merely of conquerors but of exterminators . For a time the old civilisation seemed to have totally disappeared ; the inhabitants of the land spoke a new ...
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... latter his stay would have been fertile in knowledge and instruction absorbed by one of the most receptive of human minds , and in external impressions registered and elaborated by one of the most intelligent . Rome indeed no less than ...
... latter his stay would have been fertile in knowledge and instruction absorbed by one of the most receptive of human minds , and in external impressions registered and elaborated by one of the most intelligent . Rome indeed no less than ...
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Page 216 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 302 - I dought neither speak to prince or peer, Nor ask of grace from fair ladye.' 'Now hold thy peace!' the lady said, 'For as I say, so must it be.' He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair of shoes of velvet green ; And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.
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Page 77 - We must now proceed to the two great poems which were produced at the end of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century.
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Page 352 - Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs, that yet shot up in length. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise ; Recording oft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.
Page 288 - Worship all ye that lovers be this May, For of your bliss the kalends are begun, And sing with us, away, winter away, Come, summer come, the sweet season and sun.
Page 308 - I think not nay, but, as ye say, It is no maiden's lore : But love may make me for your sake, As...