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... line of defense , crossing from the Frith of Forth to the Clyde . For four hundred years the Ro- man occupation continued . Britain became a colony ; native citizens of Rome settled there , and their descend- ants remained . Permanent ...
... line of defense , crossing from the Frith of Forth to the Clyde . For four hundred years the Ro- man occupation continued . Britain became a colony ; native citizens of Rome settled there , and their descend- ants remained . Permanent ...
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... lines in length , which preserves out of the distant past the mythical career of Beowulf , prince of the Geats . The form of the epic as we know it appears to have been the work of a Northumbrian poet in either the eighth or ninth ...
... lines in length , which preserves out of the distant past the mythical career of Beowulf , prince of the Geats . The form of the epic as we know it appears to have been the work of a Northumbrian poet in either the eighth or ninth ...
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... lines in the poem , and it is worth while to examine its form somewhat in detail . The epic be- gins thus : " Hwæt ! we Gar - Dena peod - cyninga , hu pa æðelingas Oft Scyld Scefing monegum mægþum ( egsode eorl ) , fea - sceaft funden ...
... lines in the poem , and it is worth while to examine its form somewhat in detail . The epic be- gins thus : " Hwæt ! we Gar - Dena peod - cyninga , hu pa æðelingas Oft Scyld Scefing monegum mægþum ( egsode eorl ) , fea - sceaft funden ...
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... lines 2 , 10 , a single syllable in the first half - verse alliterates with one in the second ; such a double correspondence as occurs in line 1 is rare . In lines 3 , 6 , 9 vowel alliteration occurs , and this does not require that the ...
... lines 2 , 10 , a single syllable in the first half - verse alliterates with one in the second ; such a double correspondence as occurs in line 1 is rare . In lines 3 , 6 , 9 vowel alliteration occurs , and this does not require that the ...
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... . Highly suggestive are these lines from the Elene which describe the voyage of 1 From The Christ of Cynewulf , translated into English prose by C. H. Whitman ( Ginn ) . the queen and her company on their way to seek.
... . Highly suggestive are these lines from the Elene which describe the voyage of 1 From The Christ of Cynewulf , translated into English prose by C. H. Whitman ( Ginn ) . the queen and her company on their way to seek.
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