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... knew Beowulf by heart , although it is a long lay of more than three thousand lines ; and many times at the evening meal it must have been sung to the warriors gathered in the great hall of their lord . Let us try , in imagination , to ...
... knew Beowulf by heart , although it is a long lay of more than three thousand lines ; and many times at the evening meal it must have been sung to the warriors gathered in the great hall of their lord . Let us try , in imagination , to ...
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... knew what it was to trudge home from school through deep mire , stumbling and slipping in unlighted ways , liable at any moment to be pushed by some stronger wayfarer into the gutter , where a deep and filthy stream swirled down the ...
... knew what it was to trudge home from school through deep mire , stumbling and slipping in unlighted ways , liable at any moment to be pushed by some stronger wayfarer into the gutter , where a deep and filthy stream swirled down the ...
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... knew him well , and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes , for many a joke had he ; Full well the ...
... knew him well , and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes , for many a joke had he ; Full well the ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE LAYS OF THE FIGHTINGMEN | 13 |
THE SINGERS OF THE CHURCH | 26 |
THE MONKS AND THEIR BOOKS | 32 |
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