Some Religious Elements in English LiteratureL. & Virginia Woolf, 1931 - 160 páginas |
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... heathen myth- ology , such as the incantations to the Mother of earth for blessings on the fields . There is scarcely any pure heathen English literature remaining to us . Probably the English invaders did not spend much of the hundred ...
... heathen myth- ology , such as the incantations to the Mother of earth for blessings on the fields . There is scarcely any pure heathen English literature remaining to us . Probably the English invaders did not spend much of the hundred ...
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... heathen mythology changing their names to those of Christ's thegns , the apostles ; the monsters who waged war on them becoming Satan and his legions ; the old spirits who thronged earth and air still riding the wind as imps and witches ...
... heathen mythology changing their names to those of Christ's thegns , the apostles ; the monsters who waged war on them becoming Satan and his legions ; the old spirits who thronged earth and air still riding the wind as imps and witches ...
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... heathen temple in the neighbouring grove . There was a long mingling , then , in a peaceful fashion , of Christian and heathen thought ; and through the mingling ran a special temper of tolerance and wisdom and good - breeding . " 1 ...
... heathen temple in the neighbouring grove . There was a long mingling , then , in a peaceful fashion , of Christian and heathen thought ; and through the mingling ran a special temper of tolerance and wisdom and good - breeding . " 1 ...
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CHAPTER PAGE | 9 |
ENGLISH AND NORMAN | 30 |
HUMANIsm and the Churches | 64 |
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