A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 páginas |
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... Lord . Cædmon's poem , written about 670 , is for us the beginning of English poetry , and the story of its origin ought to be loved by us . Nor should we fail to reverence the place where it began . Above the small and land - locked ...
... Lord . Cædmon's poem , written about 670 , is for us the beginning of English poetry , and the story of its origin ought to be loved by us . Nor should we fail to reverence the place where it began . Above the small and land - locked ...
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... lord , keeping faithful the tie of kinship and clanship , in the cry not to yield a foot's breadth of earth , in the loving sadness with which home is spoken of , the poem is English to the core . And in the midst of it all , like a ...
... lord , keeping faithful the tie of kinship and clanship , in the cry not to yield a foot's breadth of earth , in the loving sadness with which home is spoken of , the poem is English to the core . And in the midst of it all , like a ...
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... lord and source of all jurisdiction . Crown vassals , afterward called Barons , greater and lesser , held fiefs directly from the king . Thanes were feudatories of vassals . During the 12th and 13th centuries , the larger towns secure ...
... lord and source of all jurisdiction . Crown vassals , afterward called Barons , greater and lesser , held fiefs directly from the king . Thanes were feudatories of vassals . During the 12th and 13th centuries , the larger towns secure ...
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... lords and ladies that rode by in silver and furs as he stalked in observant moodiness along the Strand . It is this figure which in indignant sorrow walks through the whole poem . HIS VISION . - The dream of the ' field full of folk ...
... lords and ladies that rode by in silver and furs as he stalked in observant moodiness along the Strand . It is this figure which in indignant sorrow walks through the whole poem . HIS VISION . - The dream of the ' field full of folk ...
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... Lord be gracious unto him ! He dwelt at Earnley , a noble church on the bank of Severn , near Radstone , where he read books . It came in mind to him and in his chiefest thought that he would tell the noble deeds of England , what the ...
... Lord be gracious unto him ! He dwelt at Earnley , a noble church on the bank of Severn , near Radstone , where he read books . It came in mind to him and in his chiefest thought that he would tell the noble deeds of England , what the ...
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