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Page 88
... explain the frisson that the reader gets from that simple statement about the birk to say that it is an oblique way of saying that the returned sons were in fact dead , or to explain the magical or other significance of the birk ( the ...
... explain the frisson that the reader gets from that simple statement about the birk to say that it is an oblique way of saying that the returned sons were in fact dead , or to explain the magical or other significance of the birk ( the ...
Page 94
... explaining how all speech eventually reaches the House of Fame , and prides himself on his ability to explain difficult scientific matters simply to an ignorant man . The poet replies in placatory monosyllables . Nothing can stop the ...
... explaining how all speech eventually reaches the House of Fame , and prides himself on his ability to explain difficult scientific matters simply to an ignorant man . The poet replies in placatory monosyllables . Nothing can stop the ...
Page 184
... explain that he begins in medias res in proper epic fashion , and since only three books are here presented he had better explain what has happened before the events there narrated ( an ex- planation which he intended , again in proper ...
... explain that he begins in medias res in proper epic fashion , and since only three books are here presented he had better explain what has happened before the events there narrated ( an ex- planation which he intended , again in proper ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE | 3 |
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THE VICTORIAN POETS 993 | 13 |
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