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... hand , Utopia may change to Arcadia , and Arcadia to El Dorado , but the dream itself refuses to die . A juster conception of the writers themselves is likewise made possible . Shakespeare is removed from his position of lonely grandeur ...
... hand , Utopia may change to Arcadia , and Arcadia to El Dorado , but the dream itself refuses to die . A juster conception of the writers themselves is likewise made possible . Shakespeare is removed from his position of lonely grandeur ...
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... hand the ale - cup bedecked , poured the bright liquor . Clear rose the glee- man's song in Heorot . There was joy of warriors , a noble band of Danes and Weders . a deal hast thou spoken here about Breca , about his adventure . The ...
... hand the ale - cup bedecked , poured the bright liquor . Clear rose the glee- man's song in Heorot . There was joy of warriors , a noble band of Danes and Weders . a deal hast thou spoken here about Breca , about his adventure . The ...
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... hand - locked , afforded me help against my foes ; my braided war - shirt lay on my breast , with gold adorned . A speckled monster drew me to bottom , a grim one held me fast in his grasp . Yet was it granted that with the point I ...
... hand - locked , afforded me help against my foes ; my braided war - shirt lay on my breast , with gold adorned . A speckled monster drew me to bottom , a grim one held me fast in his grasp . Yet was it granted that with the point I ...
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... hand and shield I could raise , have I before entrusted to any the folk or free burg where he was nurtured : since erst they had heard how far too many folk of the Danes a bloody death o'ertook in that wine - hall . Lord But to them the ...
... hand and shield I could raise , have I before entrusted to any the folk or free burg where he was nurtured : since erst they had heard how far too many folk of the Danes a bloody death o'ertook in that wine - hall . Lord But to them the ...
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... hands . He stepped up nearer , took then with his hand the doughty - minded warrior at rest ; with his hand the foe reached towards him . He instantly grappled with the evil - minded , and on his arm rested . Soon as the criminal ...
... hands . He stepped up nearer , took then with his hand the doughty - minded warrior at rest ; with his hand the foe reached towards him . He instantly grappled with the evil - minded , and on his arm rested . Soon as the criminal ...
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