A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... adventures ; they desired to see their names and their deeds spread among distant peoples and handed down to unborn generations . Hence the poet , who alone could insure this fame , was held in high esteem . The Gleeman and the Scôp ...
... adventures ; they desired to see their names and their deeds spread among distant peoples and handed down to unborn generations . Hence the poet , who alone could insure this fame , was held in high esteem . The Gleeman and the Scôp ...
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... adventure , in which evil knights , robbers , giants , and Saracens were over- thrown by a wandering chevalier , in ... adventures of Charlemagne and his twelve peers . But the richest storehouse of romance which they had to draw upon ...
... adventure , in which evil knights , robbers , giants , and Saracens were over- thrown by a wandering chevalier , in ... adventures of Charlemagne and his twelve peers . But the richest storehouse of romance which they had to draw upon ...
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... adventures in Spain and France , they come at length to the shores of England , and land " at Dartmouth in Totnes . " The remainder of the poem recounts the legendary history of Britain . In treating the Arthur legends , Layamon is not ...
... adventures in Spain and France , they come at length to the shores of England , and land " at Dartmouth in Totnes . " The remainder of the poem recounts the legendary history of Britain . In treating the Arthur legends , Layamon is not ...
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... adventure . Rude as many of these early ballads are , they tell their story in a wonderfully fresh and vivid way ; and they are full of charming bits of nature - poetry . When shaws been sheene , and shrads full fayre , And leaves both ...
... adventure . Rude as many of these early ballads are , they tell their story in a wonderfully fresh and vivid way ; and they are full of charming bits of nature - poetry . When shaws been sheene , and shrads full fayre , And leaves both ...
الصفحة 51
... adventure , and magic , in which figure a flying horse of brass and other wonders . Chaucer's Picture of Himself among the Pilgrims . - Chau- cer introduces himself into the succession of story - tellers with characteristic modesty and ...
... adventure , and magic , in which figure a flying horse of brass and other wonders . Chaucer's Picture of Himself among the Pilgrims . - Chau- cer introduces himself into the succession of story - tellers with characteristic modesty and ...
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