Manual of English LiteratureJ.M. Dent & Company, 1926 - 356 pagina's |
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... lines The Fight at Finnesburg is related to the cycle of Finn . Beowulf is now supposed to have been mainly composed on British soil , though inserted in it are fragments of great antiquity , such as the reference to the story of ...
... lines The Fight at Finnesburg is related to the cycle of Finn . Beowulf is now supposed to have been mainly composed on British soil , though inserted in it are fragments of great antiquity , such as the reference to the story of ...
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... line is dilated into twenty ; names of persons and localities are constantly supplied , and not unfrequently interpolations occur of entirely new matter , to the extent of more than an hundred lines . Layamon often embel- lishes and ...
... line is dilated into twenty ; names of persons and localities are constantly supplied , and not unfrequently interpolations occur of entirely new matter , to the extent of more than an hundred lines . Layamon often embel- lishes and ...
Pagina 84
... line , and two in the second ; but , while each of those in the first line is usually preceded by either one or two unaccented syllables , commonly only one of those in the second line is so preceded . The second line , therefore , is ...
... line , and two in the second ; but , while each of those in the first line is usually preceded by either one or two unaccented syllables , commonly only one of those in the second line is so preceded . The second line , therefore , is ...
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