Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... lines into which the poem naturally falls : Noe freme . swa hine nergend heht hyrde tham hal gan . heofon cyninge ongan . ofostlice that hof wyrcan . micle mere cieste . magum sægde . that was threalic thing theodum toweard . rethe wite ...
... lines into which the poem naturally falls : Noe freme . swa hine nergend heht hyrde tham hal gan . heofon cyninge ongan . ofostlice that hof wyrcan . micle mere cieste . magum sægde . that was threalic thing theodum toweard . rethe wite ...
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... lines of the Genesis , and of the lines from 852 to the close . [ The lines between 234 and 852 are Genesis B. ] The early poem has many archaic elements , drawn from Teutonic ideas of the uni- verse ancient Nature - myths . Its account ...
... lines of the Genesis , and of the lines from 852 to the close . [ The lines between 234 and 852 are Genesis B. ] The early poem has many archaic elements , drawn from Teutonic ideas of the uni- verse ancient Nature - myths . Its account ...
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... line 380 ; the rest is an allegory of the Resurrection , in which not only Christ but all the souls of the just are ... lines which recall Beowulf , and the writer seems to have read that poem . If it is by an imitator of Cynewulf , the ...
... line 380 ; the rest is an allegory of the Resurrection , in which not only Christ but all the souls of the just are ... lines which recall Beowulf , and the writer seems to have read that poem . If it is by an imitator of Cynewulf , the ...
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... lines ' in which it was written . Then he wrote a beginning and end of his own in his ' short epic ' line . This theory - it is no more -- accounts for the difficulties of the poem . It begins by describing how he saw at the dead of ...
... lines ' in which it was written . Then he wrote a beginning and end of his own in his ' short epic ' line . This theory - it is no more -- accounts for the difficulties of the poem . It begins by describing how he saw at the dead of ...
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... line for line , the italics represent letters not written in the MS . The continuous gloss written above and between the Latin lines ( from Dilegam - so spelt in the MS.- on ) runs thus ( and being the symbol 7 ) : ic lufiu the drihten ...
... line for line , the italics represent letters not written in the MS . The continuous gloss written above and between the Latin lines ( from Dilegam - so spelt in the MS.- on ) runs thus ( and being the symbol 7 ) : ic lufiu the drihten ...
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