The Childhood of the English Nation; Or, The Beginnings of English HistoryG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877 - 247 páginas |
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... ancient Welsh poetry have a certain grandeur of epithet and imagery , though the absence of constructive power makes them often very unintelligible . The Erse branch of the race appears to possess greater richness of imagination . That ...
... ancient Welsh poetry have a certain grandeur of epithet and imagery , though the absence of constructive power makes them often very unintelligible . The Erse branch of the race appears to possess greater richness of imagination . That ...
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... ancient societies , we always find that some families are considered to be of better blood than others ; among the Teutons , the kings and princes were supposed to be descended from the god Woden . It is said by Bede that the Saxons had ...
... ancient societies , we always find that some families are considered to be of better blood than others ; among the Teutons , the kings and princes were supposed to be descended from the god Woden . It is said by Bede that the Saxons had ...
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... ancient poem of Beowulf , which some scholars think was written before the English left their old land , and while they were still heathens in Schleswig , the singer says : ' Each of us must abide the end of worldly life ; let him that ...
... ancient poem of Beowulf , which some scholars think was written before the English left their old land , and while they were still heathens in Schleswig , the singer says : ' Each of us must abide the end of worldly life ; let him that ...
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... ancient English poems have come down to us which bear traces of having been composed at least in heathen times , if not before the English left their first abode . We may be sure that the race from whom came the poem of Beowulf , and ...
... ancient English poems have come down to us which bear traces of having been composed at least in heathen times , if not before the English left their first abode . We may be sure that the race from whom came the poem of Beowulf , and ...
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... ancient poems have been preserved , which tell us a good deal about this religion . These poems should be studied by all who wish to understand the deepest thoughts of our forefathers ; here I can only give an outline of the religion of ...
... ancient poems have been preserved , which tell us a good deal about this religion . These poems should be studied by all who wish to understand the deepest thoughts of our forefathers ; here I can only give an outline of the religion of ...
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