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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... Northumbria . It is a story of the great deeds . and death of a hero named Beowulf . Its social interest lies in what it tells us of the manners and customs of these people before they came to the island ; its poetical interest lies in ...
... Northumbria . It is a story of the great deeds . and death of a hero named Beowulf . Its social interest lies in what it tells us of the manners and customs of these people before they came to the island ; its poetical interest lies in ...
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... Northumbria . The story of it , as told by Bæda , proves that the making of songs was common at the time . Cædmon was a servant to the monastery of Hild , an abbess of royal blood , at Whitby in Yorkshire . He was somewhat aged when the ...
... Northumbria . The story of it , as told by Bæda , proves that the making of songs was common at the time . Cædmon was a servant to the monastery of Hild , an abbess of royal blood , at Whitby in Yorkshire . He was somewhat aged when the ...
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... Northumbria , in battle against the Danes . It contains 690 lines . In the speeches of heralds and warriors before the fight , in the speeches and single combats of the chiefs , in the loud laugh and mock which follow a good death ...
... Northumbria , in battle against the Danes . It contains 690 lines . In the speeches of heralds and warriors before the fight , in the speeches and single combats of the chiefs , in the loud laugh and mock which follow a good death ...
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... Northumbrian . From 683 he spent his life at Jarrow , in the same monastery , he says , and while attentive to the rule of mine order , and the service of the Church , my constant pleasure lay in learn- ing or teaching or writing . ' He ...
... Northumbrian . From 683 he spent his life at Jarrow , in the same monastery , he says , and while attentive to the rule of mine order , and the service of the Church , my constant pleasure lay in learn- ing or teaching or writing . ' He ...
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... Northumbria was the home of English literature . Though as yet written mostly in Latin , it was a wide - spread literature . Wilfrid of York and Benedict Biscop had founded libraries and established monas- tic schools far and wide . Six ...
... Northumbria was the home of English literature . Though as yet written mostly in Latin , it was a wide - spread literature . Wilfrid of York and Benedict Biscop had founded libraries and established monas- tic schools far and wide . Six ...
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