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... English Bible . IV . THE ENGLISH BIBLE AS LITERATURE The Bible and our national style - Tributes to the authorized ver- sion - The English versions - Four versions compared - An error of form - Parallelism in Hebrew poetry - A " balance ...
... English Bible . IV . THE ENGLISH BIBLE AS LITERATURE The Bible and our national style - Tributes to the authorized ver- sion - The English versions - Four versions compared - An error of form - Parallelism in Hebrew poetry - A " balance ...
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... English Poetry - Malory's Morte d ' Arthur - A translation from French romances- François Villon , poet and thief - An anomaly . IX . THE RENAISSANCE The new learning - The causes of the awakening - Ariosto and Machiavelli - The ...
... English Poetry - Malory's Morte d ' Arthur - A translation from French romances- François Villon , poet and thief - An anomaly . IX . THE RENAISSANCE The new learning - The causes of the awakening - Ariosto and Machiavelli - The ...
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... ENGLISH LANGUAGE 107 Reproduced by kind permission of the British and Foreign Bible Society . From a specimen in their Library . " THE DAWN OF THE REFORMATION " 116 After W. T. Jeames , R.A. Photo : Rischgitz Collection . READING THE ...
... ENGLISH LANGUAGE 107 Reproduced by kind permission of the British and Foreign Bible Society . From a specimen in their Library . " THE DAWN OF THE REFORMATION " 116 After W. T. Jeames , R.A. Photo : Rischgitz Collection . READING THE ...
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... English landscape , and on the hill - side opposite to us was an old track which generations ago had been used by ponies to carry up the daily supply of bread to the little village on the hill - top . The years have changed all that ...
... English landscape , and on the hill - side opposite to us was an old track which generations ago had been used by ponies to carry up the daily supply of bread to the little village on the hill - top . The years have changed all that ...
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... English poetry is inferior to that of the seventeenth century , or that Fielding was a better novelist than Meredith . All these things alike are the great glories of a race , the one as honourably to be kept in memory as another . But ...
... English poetry is inferior to that of the seventeenth century , or that Fielding was a better novelist than Meredith . All these things alike are the great glories of a race , the one as honourably to be kept in memory as another . But ...
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Achilles Æschylus ancient Andrew Lang Apocrypha Apollo Athens beauty Bible born Brahmanism called century B.C. Christ Christian Confucius Dante death Divine Divine Comedy Don Quixote drama early earth English Eschylus Euripides faith famous father Fredk Gallery glory goddess gods Gospel Greece Greek H. A. Guerber hath heart heaven Hebrew Hector heroes Hollyer Homer human Iliad J. W. WATERHOUSE Jewish Jews Jupiter King knights Koran language Latin legends literary literature living Lord LORD LEIGHTON mediæval Middle Ages modern Moses myths National noble Odyssey Old Testament papyrus passage philosophy Photo poem poet poetry priests prophets prose religion religious Renaissance Rischgitz Collection Roman Rome sacred says scholars Scriptures servant Shakespeare songs Sophocles soul spirit story teaching thee things thou tion to-day translation Troy Ulysses unto Vatican verse Virgil W. A. Mansell wife wisdom words writing written wrote Zoroaster