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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... lived in huts hollowed out of hills , sides vaulted and roofs thatched , or in circular houses with low stone walls and conical roofs - ten or twelve families under one roof . Practiced polyandry . Lived on the products of the chase ...
... lived in huts hollowed out of hills , sides vaulted and roofs thatched , or in circular houses with low stone walls and conical roofs - ten or twelve families under one roof . Practiced polyandry . Lived on the products of the chase ...
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... lived , while England was still called Britain , in Sleswick , Jutland , and Holstein ; but , either because they were pressed from the inland or for pure love of adventure , they took to the sea , and , landing at various parts of ...
... lived , while England was still called Britain , in Sleswick , Jutland , and Holstein ; but , either because they were pressed from the inland or for pure love of adventure , they took to the sea , and , landing at various parts of ...
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... lived , naturally made the written poetry religious . But an immense quantity of secular poetry was sung about the country . ALDHELM , a young man when Cæd- mon died , and afterwards Abbot of Malmesbury , united the song - maker to the ...
... lived , naturally made the written poetry religious . But an immense quantity of secular poetry was sung about the country . ALDHELM , a young man when Cæd- mon died , and afterwards Abbot of Malmesbury , united the song - maker to the ...
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... lived in religious houses . It was sung from feast to feast and in the halls of kings , and it naturally decayed when the English were trodden down by the Normans . But we have two examples of what kind it was , and how fine it was , in ...
... lived in religious houses . It was sung from feast to feast and in the halls of kings , and it naturally decayed when the English were trodden down by the Normans . But we have two examples of what kind it was , and how fine it was , in ...
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... lived , ' wrote Ælfred in later days , ' I have striven to live worthily . ' He longed , when death overtook him , to leave to the men that come after a remembrance of me in good works . ' The aim has been more than fulfilled . The ...
... lived , ' wrote Ælfred in later days , ' I have striven to live worthily . ' He longed , when death overtook him , to leave to the men that come after a remembrance of me in good works . ' The aim has been more than fulfilled . The ...
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