Reading of Ch 14 - Parents are Concerned to Give the Heroic Impulse

Episode 32 · May 26th, 2019 · 17 mins 29 secs

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Chapter XIV - Parents are Concerned to Give the Heroic Impulse

Heroic Poetry Inspires to Noble Living - Beowulf, our English Ulysses - Beowulf is Prudent and Patient - 'Have Patience of thy Woes' - 'I Swore no False Oaths.' - 'Bear thyself Well.' - The English Ideal - Children should be in Touch with Beowulf - Action of the Poem - Our Gentle Forefathers--Old English Riddles

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