Literature and Life, 4. raamatScott, Foresman and Company, 1924 |
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... LINES FROM MS . OF THE PROLOGUE . 50 THE BANQUET HALL OF HEOROT . 11 THE MERCHANT . 51 LINES FROM BEOWULF .... 12 THE WIFE OF BATH . 51 MINSTRELS IN THE GREAT HALL . 13 THE TABARD INN .. 52 A VIKING SHIP ... 14 THE CLERK OF OXFORD .. 53 ...
... LINES FROM MS . OF THE PROLOGUE . 50 THE BANQUET HALL OF HEOROT . 11 THE MERCHANT . 51 LINES FROM BEOWULF .... 12 THE WIFE OF BATH . 51 MINSTRELS IN THE GREAT HALL . 13 THE TABARD INN .. 52 A VIKING SHIP ... 14 THE CLERK OF OXFORD .. 53 ...
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... LINES FROM BEOWULF Only through brief episodes , hints of events that must have been familiar enough to the first hearers of the saga , do we learn of his life between his return from Hroth- gar's court and his last great adventure ...
... LINES FROM BEOWULF Only through brief episodes , hints of events that must have been familiar enough to the first hearers of the saga , do we learn of his life between his return from Hroth- gar's court and his last great adventure ...
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... lines of the fragment tell of the night attack in which the feud broke out afresh . The passage begins abruptly , and ends with an incomplete line ; something of its spirit may be gained from the open- ing lines : " Are the gables not ...
... lines of the fragment tell of the night attack in which the feud broke out afresh . The passage begins abruptly , and ends with an incomplete line ; something of its spirit may be gained from the open- ing lines : " Are the gables not ...
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... line has a break , or caesura , in the middle , and contains four stresses , or accents . Two or three of the ... lines of Beowulf , or in the translated passages given earlier in this chapter . It will be noticed that Old English ...
... line has a break , or caesura , in the middle , and contains four stresses , or accents . Two or three of the ... lines of Beowulf , or in the translated passages given earlier in this chapter . It will be noticed that Old English ...
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... line ? A division , called caesura , comes near the middle of each line . Find it , and ascertain if there is any difference between the first half line and the second . Summarize the differences in form between Old English poetry and ...
... line ? A division , called caesura , comes near the middle of each line . Find it , and ascertain if there is any difference between the first half line and the second . Summarize the differences in form between Old English poetry and ...
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Literature and Life, 4. raamat Edwin Greenlaw,William Harris Elson,Christine M. Keck Snippet view - 1929 |
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