Periods of European Literature, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1904 |
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... gods or pagan sages , the labours of Hercules or of Socrates ? " 1 Books 1 " Quid posteritas emolumenti tulit legendo Hectorem pugnantem aut Socratem philosophantem ? " This is a quotation from Sulpicius Severus ( A.D. 400 ) , but the ...
... gods or pagan sages , the labours of Hercules or of Socrates ? " 1 Books 1 " Quid posteritas emolumenti tulit legendo Hectorem pugnantem aut Socratem philosophantem ? " This is a quotation from Sulpicius Severus ( A.D. 400 ) , but the ...
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... gods , male and female , whom St Augustine describes satirically - Volupia , Cluacina , Vaticanus , Murcia , and the rest , turba deorum . It may have been the long - engrained habit of rhetoric , an absorp- tion in the formal machinery ...
... gods , male and female , whom St Augustine describes satirically - Volupia , Cluacina , Vaticanus , Murcia , and the rest , turba deorum . It may have been the long - engrained habit of rhetoric , an absorp- tion in the formal machinery ...
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... Gods offers a courteous defence . The elves and fays of Italy , Lamiæ , as Boccaccio calls them , might have refreshed the poets . But the old wives and their fairy tales are left unnoticed , except by Apuleius . The poets might praise ...
... Gods offers a courteous defence . The elves and fays of Italy , Lamiæ , as Boccaccio calls them , might have refreshed the poets . But the old wives and their fairy tales are left unnoticed , except by Apuleius . The poets might praise ...
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... gods retained their marvellous nature to a large extent , though losing largely in the special characteristics of divinity . The gods became heroes . For imagination and for literature the change did not matter much . Cuchulinn is not ...
... gods retained their marvellous nature to a large extent , though losing largely in the special characteristics of divinity . The gods became heroes . For imagination and for literature the change did not matter much . Cuchulinn is not ...
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... gods , not the same as the Gothic , Vandal , Saxon , Lombard , or any other group of stories ; but the Norwegians had time to find out new things about the gods in the additional centuries of their heathendom , when the other tribes had ...
... gods , not the same as the Gothic , Vandal , Saxon , Lombard , or any other group of stories ; but the Norwegians had time to find out new things about the gods in the additional centuries of their heathendom , when the other tribes had ...
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...