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 1 |
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... fall . Their love is not shattered ; there is no mutual reproach . Eve's tenderness is as deep as Adam's repentance , and they fall to prayer . This is the close of Genesis B. It is full of Teutonic feeling . The fierce individuality ...
... fall . Their love is not shattered ; there is no mutual reproach . Eve's tenderness is as deep as Adam's repentance , and they fall to prayer . This is the close of Genesis B. It is full of Teutonic feeling . The fierce individuality ...
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... fall'n man , unworthy now To be thy lord and master : seek the king ; That sun , I pray , may never set ! I have told him What and how true thou art : he will advance thee ; Some little memory of me will stir him- I know his noble ...
... fall'n man , unworthy now To be thy lord and master : seek the king ; That sun , I pray , may never set ! I have told him What and how true thou art : he will advance thee ; Some little memory of me will stir him- I know his noble ...
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... fall . Having placed therefore the heads of this period in the kalends of January in that proleptick year , the first of our Christian vulgar account must be reckoned the 4714 of the Julian Period , which , being divided by 15. 19. 28 ...
... fall . Having placed therefore the heads of this period in the kalends of January in that proleptick year , the first of our Christian vulgar account must be reckoned the 4714 of the Julian Period , which , being divided by 15. 19. 28 ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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