A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 sider |
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... ENGLISH LITERATURE.- of what great English men and women thought and felt , and then wrote down in good prose or beautiful poetry in the English language . The story is a long one . It begins about the year 670 , and it is still going ...
... ENGLISH LITERATURE.- of what great English men and women thought and felt , and then wrote down in good prose or beautiful poetry in the English language . The story is a long one . It begins about the year 670 , and it is still going ...
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... literature is written we can say little here . Of course it has changed its look very much since it began to be written . The earliest form of our English tongue is very different from modern English in form , pronunciation , and ...
... literature is written we can say little here . Of course it has changed its look very much since it began to be written . The earliest form of our English tongue is very different from modern English in form , pronunciation , and ...
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... poetry is as much tinged with religion as with war . Whenever literature died down in England , it rose again in poetry ; and the first poetry at each recovery was religious , or linked to religion . We shall soon see that the first poems ...
... poetry is as much tinged with religion as with war . Whenever literature died down in England , it rose again in poetry ; and the first poetry at each recovery was religious , or linked to religion . We shall soon see that the first poems ...
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... English manner of looking dreadful things in the face , and with its English pathos , the religi- ous poetry of this time always went with faith beyond the grave . Thus we are told that King Eadgar , in the ode on his death in the Anglo ...
... English manner of looking dreadful things in the face , and with its English pathos , the religi- ous poetry of this time always went with faith beyond the grave . Thus we are told that King Eadgar , in the ode on his death in the Anglo ...
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... English literature strikes its key- note . ALFRED'S WORK . - When Bæda died , Northumbria was the home of English literature . Though as yet written mostly in Latin , it was a wide - spread literature . Wilfrid of York and Benedict ...
... English literature strikes its key- note . ALFRED'S WORK . - When Bæda died , Northumbria was the home of English literature . Though as yet written mostly in Latin , it was a wide - spread literature . Wilfrid of York and Benedict ...
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