Wergeland

British  

/ ˈværɡəlan /

noun

1. Henrik Arnold. 1808–45, Norwegian poet and nationalist, remembered for his lyric and narrative verse

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Example Sentences

At the grammar school of Molde, Bj�rnson was an active, tiresome, and industrious boy; in whom, at about the age of fifteen, a feeling for literature was suddenly awakened, by the reading of Wergeland's poem, The English Pilot.

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About the same time Wergeland in Norway published his tragedy, "Sinclair's Death."

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A recent work entitled "Slavery in Germanic Society During the Middle Ages," by Dr. Agnes Wergeland, late professor of history in the University of Wyoming, throws light on the work of the Church in behalf of the oppressed and enslaved.

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A few well-meaning persons, like the poet Wergeland, had labored zealously for their enlightenment and the improvement of their economic condition; but, except in the case of such single individuals, no real and vital sympathy and fellow-feeling had ever existed between the upper and the lower strata of Norwegian society.

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Wergeland himself, with all his self-sacrificing ardor, had but a vague conception of the real needs of the people, and, as far as results were concerned, wasted much of his valuable life in his efforts to improve, edify and instruct them.

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