A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... Religion . The poetry which has come down to us from this early period has been worked over by later hands and given a Christian coloring . But from other sources we know who were the primitive gods of the race : Tiu , a mys- terious ...
... Religion . The poetry which has come down to us from this early period has been worked over by later hands and given a Christian coloring . But from other sources we know who were the primitive gods of the race : Tiu , a mys- terious ...
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... religion was in the main a worship of the heavenly bodies ; their priests , known as Druids , were astronomers and bards . The circle of huge stones at Stonehenge probably marks the site of their chief temple . In character the Britons ...
... religion was in the main a worship of the heavenly bodies ; their priests , known as Druids , were astronomers and bards . The circle of huge stones at Stonehenge probably marks the site of their chief temple . In character the Britons ...
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... religion , with which they now for the first time came into full contact . The literature of this period shows very ... religious influence which came from Rome centred chiefly in south and central England , in the kingdom of Wessex ...
... religion , with which they now for the first time came into full contact . The literature of this period shows very ... religious influence which came from Rome centred chiefly in south and central England , in the kingdom of Wessex ...
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... religious experience , which , together with the public disasters then overtaking Northumbria , completely changed the temper of his mind . He gave up the half - pagan nature- poetry which up to this time he had written , and turned to ...
... religious experience , which , together with the public disasters then overtaking Northumbria , completely changed the temper of his mind . He gave up the half - pagan nature- poetry which up to this time he had written , and turned to ...
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... religious interpre- tation ; and finally a number of Riddles , very curious compo- sitions , some of which are full of fine imagination and fresh observation of nature . The " Riddles " of Cynewulf . — These last are nothing more nor ...
... religious interpre- tation ; and finally a number of Riddles , very curious compo- sitions , some of which are full of fine imagination and fresh observation of nature . The " Riddles " of Cynewulf . — These last are nothing more nor ...
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