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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... unto Canterbury . Chapter 3 : How after , Sir Gawaine's ghost ap- peared to King Arthur , and warned him that he should not fight that day . AND sister's son ; I weened thou hadst been dead , and now I see thee alive , much am I beholden ...
... unto Canterbury . Chapter 3 : How after , Sir Gawaine's ghost ap- peared to King Arthur , and warned him that he should not fight that day . AND sister's son ; I weened thou hadst been dead , and now I see thee alive , much am I beholden ...
Page 392
... unto the General , using protestation that if silver were the thing which might satisfy the General and his followers , there it was , advising him to seek no further ; the peril whereof he undertook upon his life ( as dear unto him as ...
... unto the General , using protestation that if silver were the thing which might satisfy the General and his followers , there it was , advising him to seek no further ; the peril whereof he undertook upon his life ( as dear unto him as ...
Page 393
... unto Cape Race , he sent his boy aboard the Admiral , to fetch certain things : amongst which , this being chief , was yet for- may be witnesses of his words and protestations , which sparingly I have delivered . Leaving the issue of ...
... unto Cape Race , he sent his boy aboard the Admiral , to fetch certain things : amongst which , this being chief , was yet for- may be witnesses of his words and protestations , which sparingly I have delivered . Leaving the issue of ...
Contents
THE APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE | 1 |
THE EARLY PERIOD | 7 |
BEOWULF | 11 |
Copyright | |
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