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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... nature was not so rough with them on the eastern coasts of Denmark . They had the expansive spirit which the sea encourages , and in their rude but seaworthy ships sailed in all weathers to ravage the neighboring coasts , terrible for ...
... nature was not so rough with them on the eastern coasts of Denmark . They had the expansive spirit which the sea encourages , and in their rude but seaworthy ships sailed in all weathers to ravage the neighboring coasts , terrible for ...
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... nature ; and the description of it is the first of those natural descriptions of wild scenery of which our modern English poetry is so full . Beowulf plunges into the sea , rises with the monster who has seized him into her cave , slays ...
... nature ; and the description of it is the first of those natural descriptions of wild scenery of which our modern English poetry is so full . Beowulf plunges into the sea , rises with the monster who has seized him into her cave , slays ...
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... Nature in the northern seas , in the storm - wearied sky , and in the wild marsh and forest land . Our Nature- poetry of the nineteenth century is a reversion to this early English temper , and poetry of this kind in the eighth or the ...
... Nature in the northern seas , in the storm - wearied sky , and in the wild marsh and forest land . Our Nature- poetry of the nineteenth century is a reversion to this early English temper , and poetry of this kind in the eighth or the ...
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... nature- ' Of the maiden kin is my mother known ; Of them all the dearest , so that now my daughter is Waxen up to mightiness . ' Cædmon and the Christian Poetry . The distinctive Christian poetry begins before the date of the Elegies ...
... nature- ' Of the maiden kin is my mother known ; Of them all the dearest , so that now my daughter is Waxen up to mightiness . ' Cædmon and the Christian Poetry . The distinctive Christian poetry begins before the date of the Elegies ...
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... natural phenomena . Yet he is so particular in observation of Nature that he devotes three separate Riddles to the description of three several kinds of tempest , and they are done with imagi- native intensity , nor is the phrase ...
... natural phenomena . Yet he is so particular in observation of Nature that he devotes three separate Riddles to the description of three several kinds of tempest , and they are done with imagi- native intensity , nor is the phrase ...
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