The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King AElfred, Volume 2Macmillan, 1892 - 502 páginas |
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... verse . It begins in the older England over the sea . It ends with the accession of Elfred . When he came to the throne in 871 , literature , both Latin and English , had perished , after a career of two hundred years . The final home ...
... verse . It begins in the older England over the sea . It ends with the accession of Elfred . When he came to the throne in 871 , literature , both Latin and English , had perished , after a career of two hundred years . The final home ...
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... verse . Of all possible translations of poetry , a merely prose translation is the most inaccurate . - The translations here given are as accurate as I could make them . I do not mean that there are no mistakes in them , which would be ...
... verse . Of all possible translations of poetry , a merely prose translation is the most inaccurate . - The translations here given are as accurate as I could make them . I do not mean that there are no mistakes in them , which would be ...
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... verse they translate . A translation made in any one of our existing rhyming metres seemed to me as much out of the question as a prose translation . None of these metres resemble those of Anglo- Saxon poetry ; and , moreover , their ...
... verse they translate . A translation made in any one of our existing rhyming metres seemed to me as much out of the question as a prose translation . None of these metres resemble those of Anglo- Saxon poetry ; and , moreover , their ...
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... verse seemed to me to get the nearest to the sound of the Anglo- Saxon line , even though it is frequently un - similar to that line itself . I used alliteration whenever I could , and stressed as much as possible the alliterated words ...
... verse seemed to me to get the nearest to the sound of the Anglo- Saxon line , even though it is frequently un - similar to that line itself . I used alliteration whenever I could , and stressed as much as possible the alliterated words ...
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... verse . It is still kept in Exeter Cathedral , and has been there , since Leofric died in 1071 , for 821 years . It ... verses which were made in the old Angle land over the seas . Of the poems mentioned in these volumes , it holds , and ...
... verse . It is still kept in Exeter Cathedral , and has been there , since Leofric died in 1071 , for 821 years . It ... verses which were made in the old Angle land over the seas . Of the poems mentioned in these volumes , it holds , and ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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