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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... began to be written . The earliest form of our English tongue is very different from modern English in form , pronunciation , and appearance , and one must learn it almost as if it were a foreign tongue ; but still the language written ...
... began to be written . The earliest form of our English tongue is very different from modern English in form , pronunciation , and appearance , and one must learn it almost as if it were a foreign tongue ; but still the language written ...
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... began in English poetry which , when men grew gentler and the coun- try more cultivated , became so beautiful as faeryland . Here is the description ( taken from Thorpe's edition of the poem ) of the dwelling - place of the Grendel , a ...
... began in English poetry which , when men grew gentler and the coun- try more cultivated , became so beautiful as faeryland . Here is the description ( taken from Thorpe's edition of the poem ) of the dwelling - place of the Grendel , a ...
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... began to sing verses to the praise of God , and , awak- ing , remembered what he had sung , and added more in verse worthy of God . In the morning he came to the steward , and told him of the gift he had received , and , being brought ...
... began to sing verses to the praise of God , and , awak- ing , remembered what he had sung , and added more in verse worthy of God . In the morning he came to the steward , and told him of the gift he had received , and , being brought ...
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... began in religion . The most famous passage of the poem not only illustrates the dark sadness , the fierce love of freedom , and the power of painting distinct characters which has always marked English poetry , but it is also famous ...
... began in religion . The most famous passage of the poem not only illustrates the dark sadness , the fierce love of freedom , and the power of painting distinct characters which has always marked English poetry , but it is also famous ...
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... began to decay , and after 866 it was , we may say , blotted out by the Danes . The long battle with these invaders was lost in Northumbria , but it was gained for a time by Elfred the Great in Wessex ; and with ELFRED'S literary work ...
... began to decay , and after 866 it was , we may say , blotted out by the Danes . The long battle with these invaders was lost in Northumbria , but it was gained for a time by Elfred the Great in Wessex ; and with ELFRED'S literary work ...
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