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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... human . The Celts held the soul to be immortal , be- lieved in transmigration , and burned their dead , or buried them doubled up in cists or lying straight in canoe - shaped coffins . Irish teachers visit Britain and make converts to ...
... human . The Celts held the soul to be immortal , be- lieved in transmigration , and burned their dead , or buried them doubled up in cists or lying straight in canoe - shaped coffins . Irish teachers visit Britain and make converts to ...
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... human things begin in work like this . After the fight Beowulf returns to his own land , where he rules well for many years , till a Fire - drake , who guards a treas- ure , comes down to harry his people . The old king goes out then to ...
... human things begin in work like this . After the fight Beowulf returns to his own land , where he rules well for many years , till a Fire - drake , who guards a treas- ure , comes down to harry his people . The old king goes out then to ...
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... human interest , and for all purposes of real history so worthless . " - Geo . P. Marsh . SCHEME FOR REVIEW . Periods of English Literature .. 12 Requisites for the Study .. The Text - Book ... I. Classification .. II . Diction .. III ...
... human interest , and for all purposes of real history so worthless . " - Geo . P. Marsh . SCHEME FOR REVIEW . Periods of English Literature .. 12 Requisites for the Study .. The Text - Book ... I. Classification .. II . Diction .. III ...
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... human nature , and he makes us love the noble characters in his poems and feel with kindliness towards the baser and ruder sort . He never sneers , for he had a wide charity , and we can always smile in his pages at the follies and ...
... human nature , and he makes us love the noble characters in his poems and feel with kindliness towards the baser and ruder sort . He never sneers , for he had a wide charity , and we can always smile in his pages at the follies and ...
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... human interests of the present : and , when that kind of human poetry pleases the upper classes as well as the lower , a resurrection of poetry is at hand . HAWES AND SKELTON . - At such a time we are likely to find imitators of the old ...
... human interests of the present : and , when that kind of human poetry pleases the upper classes as well as the lower , a resurrection of poetry is at hand . HAWES AND SKELTON . - At such a time we are likely to find imitators of the old ...
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