A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... hand , by feeling and imagination , as well as by language , Beowulf comes very near the rest of the extant Anglo ... hand - to - hand struggle , Beowulf tears off an arm of this monster , who is mortally wounded and flees to his den to ...
... hand , by feeling and imagination , as well as by language , Beowulf comes very near the rest of the extant Anglo ... hand - to - hand struggle , Beowulf tears off an arm of this monster , who is mortally wounded and flees to his den to ...
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... hand , of the country . The aptness of the word ' twisted ' to describe the eglantine may be disputed , but elsewhere there is only truth and pure poetry . He paints , on the one hand , all the joys which life and nature , in their ...
... hand , of the country . The aptness of the word ' twisted ' to describe the eglantine may be disputed , but elsewhere there is only truth and pure poetry . He paints , on the one hand , all the joys which life and nature , in their ...
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... hand . ' He obliged himself ' to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes , from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies , ' and • to club quotations with men whose ...
... hand . ' He obliged himself ' to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes , from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies , ' and • to club quotations with men whose ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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