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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... round Bæda ere he died . But towards the end of his life , this northern literature 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 ...
... round Bæda ere he died . But towards the end of his life , this northern literature 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 ...
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... round it . He really lived for the good of his people . He is the first instance , in the history of Christen- dom , of the Christian King , of a ruler who put aside every personal aim or ambition to devote himself to the welfare of ...
... round it . He really lived for the good of his people . He is the first instance , in the history of Christen- dom , of the Christian King , of a ruler who put aside every personal aim or ambition to devote himself to the welfare of ...
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... round on the world , the victory did not seem real , and the stern dreamer passed out of triumph into the dark sorrow in which he lived . He dreams again in Do Best , and sees , as Christ leaves the earth , the reign of Antichrist ...
... round on the world , the victory did not seem real , and the stern dreamer passed out of triumph into the dark sorrow in which he lived . He dreams again in Do Best , and sees , as Christ leaves the earth , the reign of Antichrist ...
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... Round Table down to Cadwallo , a Welsh king who died in 689. The Latin translation he made of this he called a history . The real historians were angry at the fiction , and declared that throughout the whole of it he had lied saucily ...
... Round Table down to Cadwallo , a Welsh king who died in 689. The Latin translation he made of this he called a history . The real historians were angry at the fiction , and declared that throughout the whole of it he had lied saucily ...
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... round the legendary Robin Hood , and the kind of poetic literature which sung of the outlaw and the forest , and after- wards so fully of the wild border life , gradually took form . About 1280 a beautiful little idyll , called The Owl ...
... round the legendary Robin Hood , and the kind of poetic literature which sung of the outlaw and the forest , and after- wards so fully of the wild border life , gradually took form . About 1280 a beautiful little idyll , called The Owl ...
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