Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... wrote the thing in two distinct manners- partly in a mere para- phrase of the Biblical story , dull , unilluminated by any imagination ; and partly in imaginative episodes , in which the Fall of the rebel angels , the Flood , the ...
... wrote the thing in two distinct manners- partly in a mere para- phrase of the Biblical story , dull , unilluminated by any imagination ; and partly in imaginative episodes , in which the Fall of the rebel angels , the Flood , the ...
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... wrote when he was ' old and ready for death in my frail tabernacle . ' It is the last of the signed poems . He was now a careful artist . ' I've woven craft of words , ' he says , ' culled them out , sifted night by night my thoughts ...
... wrote when he was ' old and ready for death in my frail tabernacle . ' It is the last of the signed poems . He was now a careful artist . ' I've woven craft of words , ' he says , ' culled them out , sifted night by night my thoughts ...
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... wrote they wrote in Latin . The Celtic Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged this ; and the south of England , where Rome was supreme as a teacher , did not ...
... wrote they wrote in Latin . The Celtic Church encouraged the English to shape their thought and feeling in their own tongue ; the Roman Church dis- couraged this ; and the south of England , where Rome was supreme as a teacher , did not ...
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... wrote Latin verse with ease , and trans- lated into hexameters the stories of his prose trea- tise De laudibus Virgini- tatis . His Latin Riddles sent to Aldfrith of Nor- thumbria were used by Cynewulf . His corre- spondence was ...
... wrote Latin verse with ease , and trans- lated into hexameters the stories of his prose trea- tise De laudibus Virgini- tatis . His Latin Riddles sent to Aldfrith of Nor- thumbria were used by Cynewulf . His corre- spondence was ...
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... wrote down , prob- ably from the dictation of the mariners . It is a pleasant scene to look upon . The style of this writing is , as usual , concise , simple , and straight- forward , with a touch of personal pleasure in it . These ...
... wrote down , prob- ably from the dictation of the mariners . It is a pleasant scene to look upon . The style of this writing is , as usual , concise , simple , and straight- forward , with a touch of personal pleasure in it . These ...
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