A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... seem to be of Italian origin . The source of The Bugbears is much clearer . It seems to rest on Grazzini's La Spiritata , but has been changed in treatment into a vigorous and realistic English comedy . 3. SENECAN TRAGEDY In the ...
... seem to be of Italian origin . The source of The Bugbears is much clearer . It seems to rest on Grazzini's La Spiritata , but has been changed in treatment into a vigorous and realistic English comedy . 3. SENECAN TRAGEDY In the ...
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... seems to be a combination of all . Most obviously Satan is a leader gathering to himself all special tenets and issues of evil , thus narrowing and intensifying the field . There seems to be no rationale of evil - Satan's doctrine is my ...
... seems to be a combination of all . Most obviously Satan is a leader gathering to himself all special tenets and issues of evil , thus narrowing and intensifying the field . There seems to be no rationale of evil - Satan's doctrine is my ...
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... seems to have risen rapidly , engaging even in trans - Atlantic shipping . But he seems also to have had too much of the spirit of adventure in his nature , for his great shrewdness and innate practicality could never , throughout his ...
... seems to have risen rapidly , engaging even in trans - Atlantic shipping . But he seems also to have had too much of the spirit of adventure in his nature , for his great shrewdness and innate practicality could never , throughout his ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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