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... drápa tonight : there is precedent for it , that a king shall spare the man who does him this honour . ' I will try this plan ' , says Egill wrily , ' since you wish it , but I was by no means prepared for this , to be singing king ...
... drápa tonight : there is precedent for it , that a king shall spare the man who does him this honour . ' I will try this plan ' , says Egill wrily , ' since you wish it , but I was by no means prepared for this , to be singing king ...
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... drápa was ended the king said a curious thing . Not one word of thanks or praise for the poem itself . No ! ' The poem's delivery could not be better . ' Egill had recited it very well . And he gave Egill his life this once , with a ...
... drápa was ended the king said a curious thing . Not one word of thanks or praise for the poem itself . No ! ' The poem's delivery could not be better . ' Egill had recited it very well . And he gave Egill his life this once , with a ...
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... drápa . If the spell were itself a fact it would cover all the other facts . Almost as much has been written about Hofuðlausn itself as about Egill's visit to York . It has been regarded as a drápa writ- ten in praise not of Eirík but ...
... drápa . If the spell were itself a fact it would cover all the other facts . Almost as much has been written about Hofuðlausn itself as about Egill's visit to York . It has been regarded as a drápa writ- ten in praise not of Eirík but ...
Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir Charles Webster | 2 |
HERO AND LEANDER Warton Lecture on English Poetry By C S Lewis | 23 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANALYSIS Philosophical Lecture By Brand | 39 |
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