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... eye for an eye , a tooth for a tooth ' . That is to say , it had the end of preventing the bounds of strict justice from being exceeded in a spirit of revenge . Where does Beowulf's conduct ever depart from this norm ? It is not he ...
... eye for an eye , a tooth for a tooth ' . That is to say , it had the end of preventing the bounds of strict justice from being exceeded in a spirit of revenge . Where does Beowulf's conduct ever depart from this norm ? It is not he ...
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... eyes beheld was but a symbol of a transcendent resurrec- tion , visible only to the eye of faith ' and he adds ' plainly the symbol was accommodated to their apocalyptic ideas ' ( ibid . , pp . 151 , 152 ) . This does not , of course ...
... eyes beheld was but a symbol of a transcendent resurrec- tion , visible only to the eye of faith ' and he adds ' plainly the symbol was accommodated to their apocalyptic ideas ' ( ibid . , pp . 151 , 152 ) . This does not , of course ...
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... eyes were fixed upon the face of a woman , whose head he held upon his knee , and who looked to be dead , or dying ... while a male infant , about four years of age , was half stretched on the ground , and half across the woman's lap ...
... eyes were fixed upon the face of a woman , whose head he held upon his knee , and who looked to be dead , or dying ... while a male infant , about four years of age , was half stretched on the ground , and half across the woman's lap ...
Contents
RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES IN BEOWULF | 9 |
THE FORMER | 37 |
A NOTE ON CHARACTERIZATION IN OTHELLO | 52 |
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