Interpretations of Literature, Volume 2Dodd, Mead, 1915 Lectures to his students while he "held the chair of English literature in the University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1902"--Confer Introduction. |
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Page 46
... Song of Songs : Set me as a seal upon thine heart , as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire , which hath a most vehement flame . Many waters can not ...
... Song of Songs : Set me as a seal upon thine heart , as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire , which hath a most vehement flame . Many waters can not ...
Page 47
... Song of Songs , Proverbs , —and , above all , Job . Job is certainly the grandest book in the Bible ; but all of those which I have named are books that have inspired poets and writers in all departments of English literature to such an ...
... Song of Songs , Proverbs , —and , above all , Job . Job is certainly the grandest book in the Bible ; but all of those which I have named are books that have inspired poets and writers in all departments of English literature to such an ...
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... songs , most of which are really of English origin , comes the age of fairy tales , of which very few can be traced to English sources . Indeed I believe that " Jack the Giant Killer " and " Jack and the Beanstalk " are quite ...
... songs , most of which are really of English origin , comes the age of fairy tales , of which very few can be traced to English sources . Indeed I believe that " Jack the Giant Killer " and " Jack and the Beanstalk " are quite ...
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... songs and the proverbs of the most savage tribes . There is one great defect in English work of this kind , -a great deal of such translation has been made in bad verse . For this reason the French translators who keep to prose are ...
... songs and the proverbs of the most savage tribes . There is one great defect in English work of this kind , -a great deal of such translation has been made in bad verse . For this reason the French translators who keep to prose are ...
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... Song of Roland might not be called a ballad - epic . It is indeed di- vided into a number of distinct parts , each ... song or with a lyric of any sort , although the line of demarcation may sometimes be hard to draw . A song does not ...
... Song of Roland might not be called a ballad - epic . It is indeed di- vided into a number of distinct parts , each ... song or with a lyric of any sort , although the line of demarcation may sometimes be hard to draw . A song does not ...
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