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 Seiten |
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... eye or the ear . They are too unlike in vocabulary and in inflectional character to be still considered as one speech . " - George P. Marsh . These reasons are equally conclusive against calling our earliest literature Eng- lish ...
... eye or the ear . They are too unlike in vocabulary and in inflectional character to be still considered as one speech . " - George P. Marsh . These reasons are equally conclusive against calling our earliest literature Eng- lish ...
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... eyes to fire ; his nails to steel ; the light which Beowulf finds in the Grendel's dwelling , under the waters , resembles the serene light of the sun ; and the sword which has been bathed in the monster's blood melts immediately like ...
... eyes to fire ; his nails to steel ; the light which Beowulf finds in the Grendel's dwelling , under the waters , resembles the serene light of the sun ; and the sword which has been bathed in the monster's blood melts immediately like ...
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... eye , to turn into derision the coward or the vanquished enemy , and to laud and exalt the conduct of his patrons . At times the bard raised his song to higher themes , and laid open the sacred story of the cosmogony and the beginning ...
... eye , to turn into derision the coward or the vanquished enemy , and to laud and exalt the conduct of his patrons . At times the bard raised his song to higher themes , and laid open the sacred story of the cosmogony and the beginning ...
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... eyes was the only nobility . And it brought with it a religious protest against the oppres- sion of the people by the class of the nobles . There were two other causes , however , special to England at this time . One was the utter ...
... eyes was the only nobility . And it brought with it a religious protest against the oppres- sion of the people by the class of the nobles . There were two other causes , however , special to England at this time . One was the utter ...
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... eyes , and he can make us smile or be sad as he pleases . He had a very fine ear for the music of verse , and the tale and the verse go together like voice and music . Indeed , so softly flowing and bright are they that to read them is ...
... eyes , and he can make us smile or be sad as he pleases . He had a very fine ear for the music of verse , and the tale and the verse go together like voice and music . Indeed , so softly flowing and bright are they that to read them is ...
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