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... spirit of the man who wants to know his tools so he can use them intelligently to know things . so that he can make use of them in his own daily life , you will get more from the work than otherwise . In order to make a real success of ...
... spirit of the man who wants to know his tools so he can use them intelligently to know things . so that he can make use of them in his own daily life , you will get more from the work than otherwise . In order to make a real success of ...
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... spirit was Grendel named , The mighty mark - stepper who the moors held , Fen and fastness : the sea - fiend's abode . 5 Then went he to seek out , after night came , The high - built house , how the Ring - Danes , After their beer ...
... spirit was Grendel named , The mighty mark - stepper who the moors held , Fen and fastness : the sea - fiend's abode . 5 Then went he to seek out , after night came , The high - built house , how the Ring - Danes , After their beer ...
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... spirits would render them help Against their folk - sorrows . Such was their custom.1 4. SCENES IN HROTHGAR'S HALL AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF BEOWULF Then was in joy the giver of treasure , Gray - haired and war - fierce ; help he expected ...
... spirits would render them help Against their folk - sorrows . Such was their custom.1 4. SCENES IN HROTHGAR'S HALL AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF BEOWULF Then was in joy the giver of treasure , Gray - haired and war - fierce ; help he expected ...
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... spirit with which the poem is written : When on the highest ridge of that strange land , Under the cloudless , blinding tropic blue , Drake and his band of swarthy seamen stood With dazed eyes gazing round them , emerald fans Of palm ...
... spirit with which the poem is written : When on the highest ridge of that strange land , Under the cloudless , blinding tropic blue , Drake and his band of swarthy seamen stood With dazed eyes gazing round them , emerald fans Of palm ...
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... spirit and yet are not , truly speaking , great epics . Ten- nyson's " Idylls of the King " are " a series of epical episodes " rather than a closely welded , unified epic . This material might have been treated so that it would have ...
... spirit and yet are not , truly speaking , great epics . Ten- nyson's " Idylls of the King " are " a series of epical episodes " rather than a closely welded , unified epic . This material might have been treated so that it would have ...
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Page 75 - Where is it now, the glory and the dream? Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting 60 And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, • But trailing clouds of glory we do come From God, who is our home: 65 Heaven lies about us in our infancy!