The Story of English LiteratureThe function of an introduction to English literature is to interest students in the content and spirit of great books and their relation to their times and to one another. |
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... London , owners of the British copyright , and to The Oxford University Press , of Canada , owners of the Canadian copyright . For selection from J. R. Clark Hall's translation of Beowulf , Cambridge University Press , London . For ...
... London , owners of the British copyright , and to The Oxford University Press , of Canada , owners of the Canadian copyright . For selection from J. R. Clark Hall's translation of Beowulf , Cambridge University Press , London . For ...
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... London and the playhouse cap- tured his imagination . He made his way to London , and his real life began . The next twenty years were spent as an actor in the most successful of the companies of players , and as a reviser and a writer ...
... London and the playhouse cap- tured his imagination . He made his way to London , and his real life began . The next twenty years were spent as an actor in the most successful of the companies of players , and as a reviser and a writer ...
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... London . The shopkeeper was a follower of the Swedish mystic , Emanuel Swedenborg , who taught that the world was ... London ' shared his belief that God now dwelt visibly among them ( Rev. xxi , 3 ) , and that it was 1 It was in London ...
... London . The shopkeeper was a follower of the Swedish mystic , Emanuel Swedenborg , who taught that the world was ... London ' shared his belief that God now dwelt visibly among them ( Rev. xxi , 3 ) , and that it was 1 It was in London ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
27 | 44 |
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