English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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Page 203
... called 300 His legions , angel forms , who lay entranced , Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa , where the Etrurian shades High over - arched embower ; or scattered sedge Afloat , when with fierce winds Orion1 ...
... called 300 His legions , angel forms , who lay entranced , Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa , where the Etrurian shades High over - arched embower ; or scattered sedge Afloat , when with fierce winds Orion1 ...
Page 341
... called his dark - haired son . I came , streaked with wandering blood : thrice rose the shout of the king , like the bursting forth of a squall of wind from a cloud by night . We rejoiced three days above the dead , and called the hawks ...
... called his dark - haired son . I came , streaked with wandering blood : thrice rose the shout of the king , like the bursting forth of a squall of wind from a cloud by night . We rejoiced three days above the dead , and called the hawks ...
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... called the B - text . Fifteen or twenty years later a man of greater learning than any of the others and of a more orderly and systematic habit of mind than the author of the B - text , but of much less poetic ability a pedant , in fact ...
... called the B - text . Fifteen or twenty years later a man of greater learning than any of the others and of a more orderly and systematic habit of mind than the author of the B - text , but of much less poetic ability a pedant , in fact ...
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BEOWULF | 28 |
Cynewulf and Cyneheard | 34 |
JOHN GOWER 1325?1408 | 51 |
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