Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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... death . The Dragon is slain , the treasure is won , and the hero burned on a lofty pyre overlooking the sea . The poem , many full accounts and translations of which have been set forth , runs to 3183 lines , and its manuscript is in ...
... death . The Dragon is slain , the treasure is won , and the hero burned on a lofty pyre overlooking the sea . The poem , many full accounts and translations of which have been set forth , runs to 3183 lines , and its manuscript is in ...
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... death - darts , mickle cry of war ! Loud the clang of battle ! With their hands the heroes Drew from sheath their swords ring - hilted ,. Doughty of the edges . In the camps was clashing Of the shields and shafts , of the shooters ...
... death - darts , mickle cry of war ! Loud the clang of battle ! With their hands the heroes Drew from sheath their swords ring - hilted ,. Doughty of the edges . In the camps was clashing Of the shields and shafts , of the shooters ...
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... death of Guthlac , and is told in the manner of the saga stories . I have conjec- tured that Cynewulf , who in the previous poems had avoided the heroic and mythical terms of the heathen poetry , as he would be likely to do after his ...
... death of Guthlac , and is told in the manner of the saga stories . I have conjec- tured that Cynewulf , who in the previous poems had avoided the heroic and mythical terms of the heathen poetry , as he would be likely to do after his ...
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... death of Cynewulf the Danish terror began . Literature decayed ; men had not the heart to write poetry ; and when , shortly after 867 , the army ' ( which had already ravaged East Anglia and the greater part of Mercia ) stormed York and ...
... death of Cynewulf the Danish terror began . Literature decayed ; men had not the heart to write poetry ; and when , shortly after 867 , the army ' ( which had already ravaged East Anglia and the greater part of Mercia ) stormed York and ...
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... death Northumbria relapsed into heathenism , Paullinus fled , and Latin literature was stifled in its birth . Literature and religion again took fresh life under Oswald in 634 , but they were now in Celtic , not in Roman hands . The ...
... death Northumbria relapsed into heathenism , Paullinus fled , and Latin literature was stifled in its birth . Literature and religion again took fresh life under Oswald in 634 , but they were now in Celtic , not in Roman hands . The ...
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