A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 424 páginas |
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... lived on the continent of Europe , and spoke a tongue which , though related in its roots to modern English , is unintelligible to us without special study . Anglo- Saxon , or Old English , belongs to the Low - German family of ...
... lived on the continent of Europe , and spoke a tongue which , though related in its roots to modern English , is unintelligible to us without special study . Anglo- Saxon , or Old English , belongs to the Low - German family of ...
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... lived to overcome , and ends each rude strophe with the refrain , " That he endured , this also may I. " The personal nature of the theme , the plaintive sadness of the tone , and above all the refrain , give the poem extraordinary ...
... lived to overcome , and ends each rude strophe with the refrain , " That he endured , this also may I. " The personal nature of the theme , the plaintive sadness of the tone , and above all the refrain , give the poem extraordinary ...
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... lived in wattled huts fortified with ditches and mounds . Their religion was in the main a worship of the heavenly bodies ; their priests , known as Druids , were astronomers and bards . The circle of huge stones at Stonehenge probably ...
... lived in wattled huts fortified with ditches and mounds . Their religion was in the main a worship of the heavenly bodies ; their priests , known as Druids , were astronomers and bards . The circle of huge stones at Stonehenge probably ...
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... lived and died Baeda , known as the " Venerable Bede , " a gentle , laborious scholar in whom all the learning of Northumbria was summed up . He translated the gospel of St. John into English , but his version has unfortunately been ...
... lived and died Baeda , known as the " Venerable Bede , " a gentle , laborious scholar in whom all the learning of Northumbria was summed up . He translated the gospel of St. John into English , but his version has unfortunately been ...
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... lived for a time at the great court of Charles the Bald in France ; and the spectacle of these older and richer civilizations had filled him with a desire to give to his rude subjects something of the heritage of the past . When , after ...
... lived for a time at the great court of Charles the Bald in France ; and the spectacle of these older and richer civilizations had filled him with a desire to give to his rude subjects something of the heritage of the past . When , after ...
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