Periods of European Literature, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1904 |
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... adventure like Paul Warnefrid , or a lively person like Liutprand of Cremona , will make the language do what he pleases , and will not fail to express his own character in so doing . But he cannot have , in the Dark Ages at any rate ...
... adventure like Paul Warnefrid , or a lively person like Liutprand of Cremona , will make the language do what he pleases , and will not fail to express his own character in so doing . But he cannot have , in the Dark Ages at any rate ...
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... adventures of Tristram or Lancelot . There is seldom , in spite of archæology , any thorough reve- lation of Greek life untouched , in the reader's mind , with " Gothic " colours . He makes his own scenery from what he knows in his own ...
... adventures of Tristram or Lancelot . There is seldom , in spite of archæology , any thorough reve- lation of Greek life untouched , in the reader's mind , with " Gothic " colours . He makes his own scenery from what he knows in his own ...
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... adventure seem to be unjust to the genius of Babylon , which knew of a hero voyaging to find his friend among the dead and to hear his story . Before the ... adventures are not exclusively Celtic or 44 EUROPEAN LITERATURE - THE DARK AGES .
... adventure seem to be unjust to the genius of Babylon , which knew of a hero voyaging to find his friend among the dead and to hear his story . Before the ... adventures are not exclusively Celtic or 44 EUROPEAN LITERATURE - THE DARK AGES .
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George Saintsbury. the charm of strange adventures are not exclusively Celtic or Teutonic , that does not take away the place of Celtic and Teutonic mythology in the history of the Middle Ages . It merely affects the summing up as to ...
George Saintsbury. the charm of strange adventures are not exclusively Celtic or Teutonic , that does not take away the place of Celtic and Teutonic mythology in the history of the Middle Ages . It merely affects the summing up as to ...
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... adventures of Thor and Odin , the death of Balder , the fall of Asgarth , was not found inconsistent with new forms of re- ligion , the mythology of the North was preserved , when the mythology of England and Germany , being without a ...
... adventures of Thor and Odin , the death of Balder , the fall of Asgarth , was not found inconsistent with new forms of re- ligion , the mythology of the North was preserved , when the mythology of England and Germany , being without a ...
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...