Shaw's New History of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1881 - 404 páginas |
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... wrote several pieces for The Fellow and Fraser's Magazine . In 1837 he translated into verse numerous German and Latin poems , and wrote a few original poems of merit , some of which A BRIEF MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR . XV appeared in.
... wrote several pieces for The Fellow and Fraser's Magazine . In 1837 he translated into verse numerous German and Latin poems , and wrote a few original poems of merit , some of which A BRIEF MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR . XV appeared in.
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... verses ; nor is there any rhyming , for rhyme was an adornment unknown in English poetry , until after the Norman Conquest . But in this , and in all other Old English ( Anglo - Saxon ) poems , a rude alliteration is found , which is ...
... verses ; nor is there any rhyming , for rhyme was an adornment unknown in English poetry , until after the Norman Conquest . But in this , and in all other Old English ( Anglo - Saxon ) poems , a rude alliteration is found , which is ...
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... verse which have been preserved . The shorter poems are not numerous . Fragments of verse and two or three unbroken passages are found amid the prose of the Saxon Chronicle . They are always spirited , but serious . They are the ...
... verse which have been preserved . The shorter poems are not numerous . Fragments of verse and two or three unbroken passages are found amid the prose of the Saxon Chronicle . They are always spirited , but serious . They are the ...
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Thomas Budd Shaw. They never show us the sparkle of lyric verse , the national char- acter was not adapted to its production . B. 849. ] OLD ENGLISH PROSE . The honored name of King Alfred stands pre - eminent among the writers of prose ...
Thomas Budd Shaw. They never show us the sparkle of lyric verse , the national char- acter was not adapted to its production . B. 849. ] OLD ENGLISH PROSE . The honored name of King Alfred stands pre - eminent among the writers of prose ...
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... verse - the Hymn of St. Godric , the Ely Song of King Canute , The Here Prophecy , none of them ex- ceeding eight lines in length - the first to break the long silence was Layamon , author of the Brut . According to his own account he ...
... verse - the Hymn of St. Godric , the Ely Song of King Canute , The Here Prophecy , none of them ex- ceeding eight lines in length - the first to break the long silence was Layamon , author of the Brut . According to his own account he ...
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