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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... Eng . Poetry . English Prose . War Poetry . 29 30 30 Bæda .. Alfred .. 31 32 Elfric and Eng . Chron- icle ... 34 People at and after the Conquest 36 English Lyrics .... 46 Scotland , France , and Gun- History - Chroniclers 48 powder ...
... Eng . Poetry . English Prose . War Poetry . 29 30 30 Bæda .. Alfred .. 31 32 Elfric and Eng . Chron- icle ... 34 People at and after the Conquest 36 English Lyrics .... 46 Scotland , France , and Gun- History - Chroniclers 48 powder ...
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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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... ENGLISH POETRY . - When the English came to Britain , they were great warriors and great sea pirates - sea wolves ' as a Roman poet calls them ; and all English poetry down to the present day is full of war , and still more of the sea ...
... ENGLISH POETRY . - When the English came to Britain , they were great warriors and great sea pirates - sea wolves ' as a Roman poet calls them ; and all English poetry down to the present day is full of war , and still more of the sea ...
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... English Poetry was different then from what it is now . It was not written in rhyme , nor were its syllables counted . The lines are short ; the beat of the verse depends on the emphasis given by the use of the same letter , except in ...
... English Poetry was different then from what it is now . It was not written in rhyme , nor were its syllables counted . The lines are short ; the beat of the verse depends on the emphasis given by the use of the same letter , except in ...
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... English poetry which , when men grew gentler and the coun- try more cultivated , became so beautiful as faeryland . Here is the description ( taken from Thorpe's edition of the poem ) of the dwelling - place of the Grendel , a man ...
... English poetry which , when men grew gentler and the coun- try more cultivated , became so beautiful as faeryland . Here is the description ( taken from Thorpe's edition of the poem ) of the dwelling - place of the Grendel , a man ...
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