English LiteratureScott, Foresman, 1905 - 452 pages A textbook for English Literature covering the Old, Middle, and Modern English Periods. Also contains notes and chronology charts on both principal and minor authors. |
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... - necked floaters ” over the " whale's - path , " the night is a “ shadow - helm , ” the sun is a " candle of heaven . " The whole poem is alive with a spirit of hardy adventure ; it resounds with the 20 SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CENTURIES.
... - necked floaters ” over the " whale's - path , " the night is a “ shadow - helm , ” the sun is a " candle of heaven . " The whole poem is alive with a spirit of hardy adventure ; it resounds with the 20 SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CENTURIES.
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Alphonso Gerald Newcomer. a spirit of hardy adventure ; it resounds with the noise of feasting and banter , and with ... spirits . But the fancy that creates them has worked with its old activity , giving us beautiful Faërie Queenes and ...
Alphonso Gerald Newcomer. a spirit of hardy adventure ; it resounds with the noise of feasting and banter , and with ... spirits . But the fancy that creates them has worked with its old activity , giving us beautiful Faërie Queenes and ...
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... spirit and for the light it throws upon the period : 755. Hér Cynewulf benam Sigebryht his rices ond Westseaxna wiotan for unryhtum dædum , buton Hamtunscire , etc. " In this year Cynewulf and his West Saxon Wise - men took from ...
... spirit and for the light it throws upon the period : 755. Hér Cynewulf benam Sigebryht his rices ond Westseaxna wiotan for unryhtum dædum , buton Hamtunscire , etc. " In this year Cynewulf and his West Saxon Wise - men took from ...
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... spirit . The one important name is that of Elfric , first an instructor at Winchester and later an abbot near Oxford , who , among other somewhat volumi- nous works , translated and wrote several sets of Homilies , or sermons , long ...
... spirit . The one important name is that of Elfric , first an instructor at Winchester and later an abbot near Oxford , who , among other somewhat volumi- nous works , translated and wrote several sets of Homilies , or sermons , long ...
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... spirit into the life of the race , and , possibly , precisely the spirit that was needed to redeem it from the somewhat stern , inflexible character it no doubt possessed . The Normans were already a mixed race . Certain raiding ...
... spirit into the life of the race , and , possibly , precisely the spirit that was needed to redeem it from the somewhat stern , inflexible character it no doubt possessed . The Normans were already a mixed race . Certain raiding ...
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