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... original reads hwaet me gemaette to midre nihte : literally ' what I dreamt at midnight ' . A literal translation not only destroys the alliteration , it also provides only six syllables to the original ten . My translation ( ' A dream ...
... original reads hwaet me gemaette to midre nihte : literally ' what I dreamt at midnight ' . A literal translation not only destroys the alliteration , it also provides only six syllables to the original ten . My translation ( ' A dream ...
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... original , vigorous , and elegant . ' It was , of course , a limited sort of originality that Johnson ( and later Jeffrey ) saw in Crabbe , that of a poet who , working within an established tradition , nevertheless made of it something ...
... original , vigorous , and elegant . ' It was , of course , a limited sort of originality that Johnson ( and later Jeffrey ) saw in Crabbe , that of a poet who , working within an established tradition , nevertheless made of it something ...
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... original , derived from the neo - classical movement which was already strongly influencing the society into which he was born . About the very year of his birth , Shelley's grandfather , Sir Bysshe , building at Castle Goring a ...
... original , derived from the neo - classical movement which was already strongly influencing the society into which he was born . About the very year of his birth , Shelley's grandfather , Sir Bysshe , building at Castle Goring a ...
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RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES IN BEOWULF | 9 |
PUSHKINS VERSION | 40 |
A NOTE ON CHARACTERIZATION IN OTHELLO | 52 |
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