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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... romance of Beo- wulf contains only five , and these are of the simplest kind ; the vessel gliding swiftly over the waves is compared to a bird ; the Grendel's eyes to fire ; his nails to steel ; the light which Beowulf finds in the ...
... romance of Beo- wulf contains only five , and these are of the simplest kind ; the vessel gliding swiftly over the waves is compared to a bird ; the Grendel's eyes to fire ; his nails to steel ; the light which Beowulf finds in the ...
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... romance and feeling . The subjects of the poem were taken from the Bible , in fact Cædmon paraphrased the history of the Old and the New Testament . He sang the creation of the world , the 6 history of Israel , the book of Daniel ...
... romance and feeling . The subjects of the poem were taken from the Bible , in fact Cædmon paraphrased the history of the Old and the New Testament . He sang the creation of the world , the 6 history of Israel , the book of Daniel ...
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... romance . In that form they returned to England as the work of Wace , a Norman trouveur , who called his poem the Brut , and com- pleted it in 1155 , shortly after the accession of Henry II . LAYAMON'S BRUT . - In this French form the ...
... romance . In that form they returned to England as the work of Wace , a Norman trouveur , who called his poem the Brut , and com- pleted it in 1155 , shortly after the accession of Henry II . LAYAMON'S BRUT . - In this French form the ...
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... , 1298 ; and the Romance of King Alexander , about 1280 , originally a Gre work , was adapted from the French into English . As the dates grow nearer to 1300 , seven years before the 44 Literature of Period II . , 1066–1400 .
... , 1298 ; and the Romance of King Alexander , about 1280 , originally a Gre work , was adapted from the French into English . As the dates grow nearer to 1300 , seven years before the 44 Literature of Period II . , 1066–1400 .
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... Romance of Alexander , on the other hand , the natural landscape , the convention 1 introductions to the parts , the gorgeous descrip- tions of pomps and armor and cities , the magic wonders , the manners , and feasts , and battles of ...
... Romance of Alexander , on the other hand , the natural landscape , the convention 1 introductions to the parts , the gorgeous descrip- tions of pomps and armor and cities , the magic wonders , the manners , and feasts , and battles of ...
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