Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... verse ; and ' The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ' had made but a few desultory efforts in literature . Howells was an infant , and Henr James was not yet born . A vast proportion o what gives character to modern letters had no yet ...
... verse ; and ' The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ' had made but a few desultory efforts in literature . Howells was an infant , and Henr James was not yet born . A vast proportion o what gives character to modern letters had no yet ...
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... verse . The allusions to the sagas of Theodoric and Gudrun and Eormanric prove that the English knew , as Waldhere also proves , the Germanic cycle of stories . None of the examples are Christian , but the poem suffers from a Christian ...
... verse . The allusions to the sagas of Theodoric and Gudrun and Eormanric prove that the English knew , as Waldhere also proves , the Germanic cycle of stories . None of the examples are Christian , but the poem suffers from a Christian ...
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... verse ancient Nature - myths . Its account of Abraham's war is alive with heathen lust of battle and vengeance ; and Abraham and his comrades speak like an English earl and his thanes in counsel . When the poet comes to gentler matters ...
... verse ancient Nature - myths . Its account of Abraham's war is alive with heathen lust of battle and vengeance ; and Abraham and his comrades speak like an English earl and his thanes in counsel . When the poet comes to gentler matters ...
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... verse the Metra with which Boethius interspersed his prose is not as yet settled by the critics . If we believe the short poetical prologue to the oldest of the manuscripts , the English version of the Metra in poetry is the work of the ...
... verse the Metra with which Boethius interspersed his prose is not as yet settled by the critics . If we believe the short poetical prologue to the oldest of the manuscripts , the English version of the Metra in poetry is the work of the ...
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... verse - t -the four beats and triple alliteration in each pair of short lines - and was pleased to fall in with the French fashion of rhyme , when , as in lah and ah , feo and cneo , grame and scame , the rhymes came readily to his hand ...
... verse - t -the four beats and triple alliteration in each pair of short lines - and was pleased to fall in with the French fashion of rhyme , when , as in lah and ah , feo and cneo , grame and scame , the rhymes came readily to his hand ...
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