The College Survey of English Literature: The early period. The sixteenth century. The seventeenth century. The eighteenth centuryBartlett Jere Whiting, Fred Benjamin Millett Harcourt, Brace, 1947 |
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... ship ; the man who had knowledge of the sea led the way to the shore . Time passed and now the ship was in the waves , the boat at the foot of the cliff . Ready men mounted the prow - the currents eddied , the water against the sand ...
... ship ; the man who had knowledge of the sea led the way to the shore . Time passed and now the ship was in the waves , the boat at the foot of the cliff . Ready men mounted the prow - the currents eddied , the water against the sand ...
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... ship could neither make way nor feel the helm , so huge and high cargoed was the Spanish ship , being of a thousand and five hundred was thus bereft of his sails , the ships that were under his lee , luffing up , also laid him aboard ...
... ship could neither make way nor feel the helm , so huge and high cargoed was the Spanish ship , being of a thousand and five hundred was thus bereft of his sails , the ships that were under his lee , luffing up , also laid him aboard ...
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... ship , and a weak garrison to resist so mighty an army . By those hundred all was sustained , the volleys , boardings , and enterings of fifteen ships of war , besides those which beat her at large . On the contrary , the Spanish were ...
... ship , and a weak garrison to resist so mighty an army . By those hundred all was sustained , the volleys , boardings , and enterings of fifteen ships of war , besides those which beat her at large . On the contrary , the Spanish were ...
Contents
THE APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE | 1 |
THE EARLY PERIOD | 7 |
BEOWULF | 11 |
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