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…the Anglo-Saxon era. It was not until 1936, when the Oxford scholar J.R.R. Tolkien (who later wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, works heavily influenced by Beowulf) published a groundbreaking paper entitled "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics…

…, practically everything that was worth knowing in the literature of other countries, were for the first time made available in the English tongue." ring to bring about a revolution along the lines of Bacon's thought. They acquainted Bacon with mystery traditions…

…prices.¡¨ He is shown by J B Priestley to be a pompous, selfish, complacent man, ex-Lord Mayor, potential Knighthood and ¡§sound useful party man¡¨ who plays golf with the chief of police. Certainly an influential figure within the community, a man…

…God revealed in the person of Jesus Christ 2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments 3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity 4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists 5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament…

…and movingly moving towards His creation. Even after Adam and Eve rebelled against their creator's authority and attempted to run from God He pursued the relationship. Then they heard the LORD God walking in the garden during the cool part of the day, and the man…

…related to a theory of the development of the earth’s surface called plate tectonics. Mount St. Helens is a fart of the Ring of Fire, a circle of active volcanoes that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. There are a lot more volcanoes under the sea than…

…the ground where his flock was feeding. Gyges climbed down into a chasm. Inside he saw a bronze horse with doors in it. Gyges looks in through the doors and sees a statue with a golden ring it. Gyges pulled the ring from it and went back to the field…

…by bonds of kingship, homage, and fealty and by grants of benefits - lands or estates given by king, lay lord, or ecclesiastical officer (bishop or abbot) to another member of the nobility or to a knight. (McKay, A History of Western Society 270.) However…

…The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel, the well meaning artist Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. After conversing with cynical Lord Henry…

…to reform himself. Lord Henry Wotton - the aristocrat who corrupts Dorian Gray with his ideas that morality is hypocrisy used to cover people's inadequacies. He decides early on that he wants to dominate Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray - the object…