Periods of European Literature, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1897 |
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... never , in any general history of European literature , hope to satisfy the special devotees of Roumansch or of Platt- Deutsch , not to mention those of the greater languages -yet there may , I hope , be a sufficient vi PREFACE .
... never , in any general history of European literature , hope to satisfy the special devotees of Roumansch or of Platt- Deutsch , not to mention those of the greater languages -yet there may , I hope , be a sufficient vi PREFACE .
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... never disarms foes , than in order to explain and illustrate the principle of the Series . All its volumes have been or will be allotted on the same principle— that of occasionally postponing or antedating detailed attention to the ...
... never disarms foes , than in order to explain and illustrate the principle of the Series . All its volumes have been or will be allotted on the same principle— that of occasionally postponing or antedating detailed attention to the ...
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... never be anything much better than a large prize poem , such as those which still receive and sometimes deserve the medals and the gift - books of schools and universities . Every now and then a man of irrepressible literary talent ...
... never be anything much better than a large prize poem , such as those which still receive and sometimes deserve the medals and the gift - books of schools and universities . Every now and then a man of irrepressible literary talent ...
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... never be weary of admiring the best of these hymns , or of noticing and , as far as possible , understanding their perfection . Although the lan- guage they use is old , and their subjects are those which very competent and not at all ...
... never be weary of admiring the best of these hymns , or of noticing and , as far as possible , understanding their perfection . Although the lan- guage they use is old , and their subjects are those which very competent and not at all ...
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... never been quite able to produce fection of the it to this day . But it must be obvious at Hymns . once what a standard was held up before poets , almost every one of whom , even if he had but small Latin in a general way , heard these ...
... never been quite able to produce fection of the it to this day . But it must be obvious at Hymns . once what a standard was held up before poets , almost every one of whom , even if he had but small Latin in a general way , heard these ...
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Alexander Aliscans alliteration Anglo-Saxon appears Arthur Arthurian legend ballads Benoît Benoît de Sainte-More Briseida Callisthenes Celtic certainly chansons de geste character Charlemagne charm Chaucer Chrestien classical criticism crusader curious Dares decasyllable earlier early edition English epic fabliaux fact famous fighting France French Gawain German Gottfried Graal Greek Grettir Guinevere Hartmann Havelok Heinrich hero Icelandic interest Italian kind King knights Kudrun Lancelot language later Latin Layamon least less literary literature lover lyric matter mediæval merely Merlin metre Middle Ages Minnesingers modern Nectanabus never Nibelungenlied older original Ormulum Paris Parzival perhaps person poem poetical poetry poets present probably proper prose prosody Provençal Renart rhyme Roland Roman d'Alixandre romances sagas Saracens seems sometimes spirit stanza story syllables texts things thirteenth century tion tongues translation Tristram Troilus trouvère twelfth century vernacular verse Walter whole William Wolfram Wolfram von Eschenbach writers written