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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... side by side , heathen and Christian formulas , the latter often as superstitious in nature as the former . The English accepted Christianity with singularly little protest , but they long clung , not without the tacit consent of the ...
... side by side , heathen and Christian formulas , the latter often as superstitious in nature as the former . The English accepted Christianity with singularly little protest , but they long clung , not without the tacit consent of the ...
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... side of the wall being five hundred foot long . The two great streets , which run cross and divide it into four quarters , are five foot wide . The lanes and alleys , which I could not enter , but only viewed them as I passed , are from ...
... side of the wall being five hundred foot long . The two great streets , which run cross and divide it into four quarters , are five foot wide . The lanes and alleys , which I could not enter , but only viewed them as I passed , are from ...
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... side to side ; At length the wits mount up , the hairs subside . See , fierce Belinda on the Baron flies , With more than usual lightning in her eyes : Nor feared the Chief the unequal fight to try , Who sought no more than on his foe ...
... side to side ; At length the wits mount up , the hairs subside . See , fierce Belinda on the Baron flies , With more than usual lightning in her eyes : Nor feared the Chief the unequal fight to try , Who sought no more than on his foe ...
Contents
THE APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE | 1 |
THE EARLY PERIOD | 7 |
BEOWULF | 11 |
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