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... nature and form lay hidden in the darkness of fog and night . The poem of Beowulf supplies many vivid picturings of early English life and manners ; the hero of the poem is really the idealization of the Anglo - Saxon himself . That ...
... nature and form lay hidden in the darkness of fog and night . The poem of Beowulf supplies many vivid picturings of early English life and manners ; the hero of the poem is really the idealization of the Anglo - Saxon himself . That ...
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... nature they were impressed by the elemen- tal phenomena of storm and climate , the descent of winter , the birth of spring . As they delighted in the narrative of conflict , so they loved to picture man's struggle with the sea and to ...
... nature they were impressed by the elemen- tal phenomena of storm and climate , the descent of winter , the birth of spring . As they delighted in the narrative of conflict , so they loved to picture man's struggle with the sea and to ...
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... nature has its birth . Cynewulf , 750 . Aside from Cædmon , the only one of the Old Eng- lish poets known to us by name is Cynewulf , a writer of great influence and a poet of gen- born about uine power . Yet Cynewulf's actual person ...
... nature has its birth . Cynewulf , 750 . Aside from Cædmon , the only one of the Old Eng- lish poets known to us by name is Cynewulf , a writer of great influence and a poet of gen- born about uine power . Yet Cynewulf's actual person ...
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... natural , almost the spontaneous form adopted by those who are moved to express thought or emotion with any effort toward artistic ef- fect . Such utterance comes in moments of exaltation , unpremeditated . In these moods men become ...
... natural , almost the spontaneous form adopted by those who are moved to express thought or emotion with any effort toward artistic ef- fect . Such utterance comes in moments of exaltation , unpremeditated . In these moods men become ...
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... natural science , commentaries on the Scriptures , lives of the saints , church history , treatises on philosophy , and , besides other works , made metrical versions of the Psalms . " I wholly applied myself to the study of Scripture ...
... natural science , commentaries on the Scriptures , lives of the saints , church history , treatises on philosophy , and , besides other works , made metrical versions of the Psalms . " I wholly applied myself to the study of Scripture ...
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