History of English Literature: To Wiclif, tr. by H. M. KennedyG. Belland sons, 1904 |
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... Regard for these " wider circles , " whose interest I hope to gain in a subject certainly not unworthy of it , has excluded from my book much that will be missed by the student , and even some things which will be regretted by the ...
... Regard for these " wider circles , " whose interest I hope to gain in a subject certainly not unworthy of it , has excluded from my book much that will be missed by the student , and even some things which will be regretted by the ...
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... regard Woden as the chief of gods . Woden was certainly deemed by them the god of culture , the discoverer of the runes , as by the Scandinavian races to whom they had perhaps com- municated his worship . The wise disposer of battles ...
... regard Woden as the chief of gods . Woden was certainly deemed by them the god of culture , the discoverer of the runes , as by the Scandinavian races to whom they had perhaps com- municated his worship . The wise disposer of battles ...
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... ray it thrived . As regards the Franks in Gaul , their immediate contact with an older , much superior civi.i- sation , forced upon them not only a strange religion but a strange language , at the very time when they reached.
... ray it thrived . As regards the Franks in Gaul , their immediate contact with an older , much superior civi.i- sation , forced upon them not only a strange religion but a strange language , at the very time when they reached.
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... regard to all extant remains of the Old English epic . In the first quarter of the sixth century , when , according- ly , a part of the English races were grappling with the Britons in bloody strife ( a greater part still dwelt in Ger ...
... regard to all extant remains of the Old English epic . In the first quarter of the sixth century , when , according- ly , a part of the English races were grappling with the Britons in bloody strife ( a greater part still dwelt in Ger ...
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... regards the most extensive and leading poem of the manuscript , and this one only , it is quite possible that a fragmentary and imperfectly transmitted work of Caedmon lies before us ; a work mangled , modernised in language , 1 See ...
... regards the most extensive and leading poem of the manuscript , and this one only , it is quite possible that a fragmentary and imperfectly transmitted work of Caedmon lies before us ; a work mangled , modernised in language , 1 See ...
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