Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1Scott, Foresman, 1910 - English literature |
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... seemed equally important in a few instances to correct a manifest and misleading error or to remove an extremely offensive epithet . The instances of such changes are perhaps not a dozen in all . The notes have been placed at the bottom ...
... seemed equally important in a few instances to correct a manifest and misleading error or to remove an extremely offensive epithet . The instances of such changes are perhaps not a dozen in all . The notes have been placed at the bottom ...
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... seemed not grievous to any warrior who the inglorious one's trail beheld , — how , weary in spirit , o'ercome in the conflict , death - doomed and fleeing , he bare death - traces thence away to the nickers ' mere . There was the surge ...
... seemed not grievous to any warrior who the inglorious one's trail beheld , — how , weary in spirit , o'ercome in the conflict , death - doomed and fleeing , he bare death - traces thence away to the nickers ' mere . There was the surge ...
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... seemed a sign that him the sea - wolf had quite destroyed . The noon - tide * came , they left the nesses , the Scyldings bold ; departed home thence the gold - friend of men . The strangers sat , sick of mood , and gazed on the mere ...
... seemed a sign that him the sea - wolf had quite destroyed . The noon - tide * came , they left the nesses , the Scyldings bold ; departed home thence the gold - friend of men . The strangers sat , sick of mood , and gazed on the mere ...
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... seemed to them all , so as it was , that to him , from the Lord himself , a heavenly gift had been given . Then they ex- pounded to him and said some holy history , and words of godly lore ; then bade him , if he could , to sing some of ...
... seemed to them all , so as it was , that to him , from the Lord himself , a heavenly gift had been given . Then they ex- pounded to him and said some holy history , and words of godly lore ; then bade him , if he could , to sing some of ...
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... seemed 1 The Dwina . 2 A people east of the Dwina . 3 The region between the Gulf of Bothnia and che North Cape . From the addition made by King Alfred to his translation of Orosius ' History of the World ; modern English translation by ...
... seemed 1 The Dwina . 2 A people east of the Dwina . 3 The region between the Gulf of Bothnia and che North Cape . From the addition made by King Alfred to his translation of Orosius ' History of the World ; modern English translation by ...
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