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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Side 23
... religious people , even as heathen , conventionally separated but of confounding things logically distinct ; for , though our modern English is built upon , and mainly derived from , the Anglo - Saxon , the two dialects are now so ...
... religious people , even as heathen , conventionally separated but of confounding things logically distinct ; for , though our modern English is built upon , and mainly derived from , the Anglo - Saxon , the two dialects are now so ...
Side 24
... 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 were of war and religion ...
... 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 were of war and religion ...
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... religious throughout - Christianity speaks in it simply , sternly , with fire , and brings with it a new world of spiritual romance and feeling . The subjects of the poem were taken from the Bible , in fact Cædmon paraphrased the ...
... religious throughout - Christianity speaks in it simply , sternly , with fire , and brings with it a new world of spiritual romance and feeling . The subjects of the poem were taken from the Bible , in fact Cædmon paraphrased the ...
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... religious poems , but none could vie with him , for he did not learn the art of poetry from men , nor of men , but from God . ' It was thus that English song began in religion . The most famous passage of the poem not only illustrates ...
... religious poems , but none could vie with him , for he did not learn the art of poetry from men , nor of men , but from God . ' It was thus that English song began in religion . The most famous passage of the poem not only illustrates ...
Side 29
... religious . But it was not likely to be written down by the writers who 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 ...
... religious . But it was not likely to be written down by the writers who 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 ...
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