English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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Pagina 23
... perhaps because of the interest of King Alfred himself in the older literature of the people . The scene of the story is southern Sweden and the Danish islands of Seeland , but the Christian writer has softened the character of Beowulf ...
... perhaps because of the interest of King Alfred himself in the older literature of the people . The scene of the story is southern Sweden and the Danish islands of Seeland , but the Christian writer has softened the character of Beowulf ...
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... Perhaps for this reason , perhaps because of the respect for anything that had been put into a book , authors bor- rowed freely from the works of others . The idea that an author had property rights in what he had written did not arise ...
... Perhaps for this reason , perhaps because of the respect for anything that had been put into a book , authors bor- rowed freely from the works of others . The idea that an author had property rights in what he had written did not arise ...
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... perhaps his oldest son Henry - for the amiable Dr. Primrose , the Vicar of Wakefield , and for the kindly parson in The Deserted Village . Goldsmith's first teacher judged him to be " impenetrably dull . " His second , an old soldier ...
... perhaps his oldest son Henry - for the amiable Dr. Primrose , the Vicar of Wakefield , and for the kindly parson in The Deserted Village . Goldsmith's first teacher judged him to be " impenetrably dull . " His second , an old soldier ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION II | 11 |
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE 10661476 | 28 |
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