Text-book on English Literature ...Maynard, Merrill & Company, 1899 - 485 strán (strany) |
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Strana 23
... began to be written . The earliest form of our English tongue is very different from modern English in form , pronunciation , and appearance , and one must learn it almost as if it were a foreign tongue ; but still the language written ...
... began to be written . The earliest form of our English tongue is very different from modern English in form , pronunciation , and appearance , and one must learn it almost as if it were a foreign tongue ; but still the language written ...
Strana 25
... began in English poetry which , when men grew gentler and the coun- try more cultivated , became so beautiful as faeryland . Here is the description ( taken from Thorpe's edition of the poem ) of the dwelling - place of the Grendel , a ...
... began in English poetry which , when men grew gentler and the coun- try more cultivated , became so beautiful as faeryland . Here is the description ( taken from Thorpe's edition of the poem ) of the dwelling - place of the Grendel , a ...
Strana 27
... began to sing verses to the praise of God , and , awak- ing , remembered what he had sung , and added more in verse worthy of God . In the morning he came to the steward , and told him of the gift he had received , and , being brought ...
... began to sing verses to the praise of God , and , awak- ing , remembered what he had sung , and added more in verse worthy of God . In the morning he came to the steward , and told him of the gift he had received , and , being brought ...
Strana 28
... began in religion . The most famous passage of the poem not only illustrates the dark sadness , the fierce love of freedom , and the power of painting distinct characters which has always marked English poetry , but it is also famous ...
... began in religion . The most famous passage of the poem not only illustrates the dark sadness , the fierce love of freedom , and the power of painting distinct characters which has always marked English poetry , but it is also famous ...
Strana 32
... began to decay , and after 866 it was , we may say , blotted out by the Danes . The long battle with these invaders was lost in Northumbria , but it was gained for a time by Ælfred the Great in Wessex ; and with ÆLFRED'S literary work ...
... began to decay , and after 866 it was , we may say , blotted out by the Danes . The long battle with these invaders was lost in Northumbria , but it was gained for a time by Ælfred the Great in Wessex ; and with ÆLFRED'S literary work ...
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Strana 388 - Then who will cheer my bonny bride When they have slain her lover ? " Out spoke the hardy Highland wight, " I'll go, my chief — I'm ready: — It is not for your silver bright, But for your winsome lady: And by my word ! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry ; So though the waves are raging white I'll row you o'er the ferry.