Periods of European Literature, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1904 |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 17
Página 34
... Aldhelm , in quoting a verse , must stop to remark " brachycatalectic , " and plays the terms penthemimeris and hephthemimeris apparently for their pure ornamental value as " beauti- ful words . " One most interesting effect of the rhet ...
... Aldhelm , in quoting a verse , must stop to remark " brachycatalectic , " and plays the terms penthemimeris and hephthemimeris apparently for their pure ornamental value as " beauti- ful words . " One most interesting effect of the rhet ...
Página 35
... Aldhelm . The extraordinary foreign vocabulary used in a certain order of medieval Latin prose and verse , in some of the old English charters , in Abbo's poem on the siege of Paris , was founded long ago in the experiments of Apuleius ...
... Aldhelm . The extraordinary foreign vocabulary used in a certain order of medieval Latin prose and verse , in some of the old English charters , in Abbo's poem on the siege of Paris , was founded long ago in the experiments of Apuleius ...
Página 91
... Aldhelm and of Swift , as far as the matter goes . The procedure is exactly the same , only the language and the forms of verse are different . The riddles that Odin put to King Heidrek in the old Norse poem have their own poetical ...
... Aldhelm and of Swift , as far as the matter goes . The procedure is exactly the same , only the language and the forms of verse are different . The riddles that Odin put to King Heidrek in the old Norse poem have their own poetical ...
Página 92
... Aldhelm , Tatwine , Boniface , Alcuin - diverted themselves with the composition of short Latin poems of this kind . Pretty early in the history of English poetry the vernacular language was applied to the same purpose ; with a ...
... Aldhelm , Tatwine , Boniface , Alcuin - diverted themselves with the composition of short Latin poems of this kind . Pretty early in the history of English poetry the vernacular language was applied to the same purpose ; with a ...
Página 93
... Aldhelm and Alcuin to their Latin riddles . When English was used for a like purpose , the native verse proved itself infinitely more lively than Latin , Artifice took on a more natural and spontaneous air in the Anglo - Saxon poems of ...
... Aldhelm and Alcuin to their Latin riddles . When English was used for a like purpose , the native verse proved itself infinitely more lively than Latin , Artifice took on a more natural and spontaneous air in the Anglo - Saxon poems of ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adamnan adventures Alcuin Aldhelm allegory alliterative ancient Anglo-Saxon authors ballad battle Bede belongs Beowulf Bishop Boethius called Cassiodorus Celtic character Charlemagne classical common Court Cynewulf Dante Dark Ages dialogue Einhard Ekkehard Elder Edda epic poetry Ermoldus extant favourite Fortunatus French epic Froissart genius gives gods Gothic grammar Greek Gregory of Tours Hávamál Helgi hero heroic Hildebrand historians Homer honour Hrungnir Icelandic imagination Irish kind king language later Latin Latin verse learning legend less literary literature Liutprand Lombard lyrical Martianus Capella medieval Middle Ages mind modern motives myth mythology narrative ninth century Northern Notker Odin old English original phrases poem poetical poets popular prose rhetoric rhymes Roland romance Sagas Saxon Sigrun Sigurd song sort spirit St Gall stanzas story style syllables taste Teutonic themes things Thor thou tion tongues tradition translated Tuotilo Volospá Waltharius Welsh words writing wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página ii - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.
Página 338 - And if it should be said that there was a porter at Arthur's palace, there was none. Glewlwyd Gavaelvawr was there, acting as porter, to welcome guests and strangers, and to receive them with honour...
Página 19 - Methinks we should not so soon yield our consents captive to the authority of antiquity, unless we saw more reason ; all our understandings are not to be built by the square of Greece and Italy. We are the children of nature as well as they ; we are not so placed out of the way of judgement, but that the same sun of discretion shineth upon us ; we have our portion of the same virtues as well as of the same vices : Et Catilinam quocunque in populo videas, quocunque sub axe.
Página 226 - Die illi nunc de me corde fideli Tantundem liebes, veniat quantum modo loubes, Et volucrum wunna quot sint, tot die sibi minna, Graminis et florum quantum sit, die et honorum.
Página 213 - O Roma nobilis, orbis et domina, Cunctarum urbium excellentissima, Roseo martyrum sanguine rubea, Albis et virginum liliis candida: Salutem dicimus tibi per omnia Te benedicimus, salve per saecula.
Página 19 - Longobards, whose coming down like an inundation overwhelmed, as they say, all the glory of learning in Europe, have yet left us still their laws and customs, as the originals of most of the provincial constitutions of Christendom ; which well considered with their other courses of government, may serve to clear them from this imputation of ignorance. And though the vanquished never...
Página 109 - A man to join himself with th' Universe In his main sway, and make in all things fit One with that All, and go on, round as it; Not plucking from the whole his wretched part, And into straits, or into nought revert, Wishing the complete Universe might be Subject to such a rag of it as he...