Periods of European Literature, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1904 |
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... Gall , which are in relation with the newer school at Fulda on the one hand , and with the Irish on the other . Bede 1 Daniel , A Defence of Ryme , 1607 . ( Jarrow ) taught Egbert ( York ) , who 20 EUROPEAN LITERATURE - THE DARK AGES .
... Gall , which are in relation with the newer school at Fulda on the one hand , and with the Irish on the other . Bede 1 Daniel , A Defence of Ryme , 1607 . ( Jarrow ) taught Egbert ( York ) , who 20 EUROPEAN LITERATURE - THE DARK AGES .
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... hand , from ancient Greece , and on the other are found surviving as respectable common- places , scarcely damaged , in the Augustan Ages of Louis XIV . and Queen Anne . Great part of the educational furniture of the Middle Ages , the ...
... hand , from ancient Greece , and on the other are found surviving as respectable common- places , scarcely damaged , in the Augustan Ages of Louis XIV . and Queen Anne . Great part of the educational furniture of the Middle Ages , the ...
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... hand it is difficult to appreciate rightly the extraordinary care and affection bestowed on the preparation for literature ; Grammar being the proper comprehensive name for that study , with Rhetoric to continue 32 EUROPEAN LITERATURE ...
... hand it is difficult to appreciate rightly the extraordinary care and affection bestowed on the preparation for literature ; Grammar being the proper comprehensive name for that study , with Rhetoric to continue 32 EUROPEAN LITERATURE ...
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... hands . Then he saw lightnings and heard thunder , and Thor's hammer came flying : it caught the hone and broke it , and went into Hrungnir's stone skull and cracked it into little pieces . The hone was broken : half of it went into ...
... hands . Then he saw lightnings and heard thunder , and Thor's hammer came flying : it caught the hone and broke it , and went into Hrungnir's stone skull and cracked it into little pieces . The hone was broken : half of it went into ...
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... hand Thor's adventures , on the other the Dream of Balder . In the literary use of myth among the Celts a graver and more beautiful kind of imagination re- veals itself in contrast to the riot of distortion ; not always , indeed not ...
... hand Thor's adventures , on the other the Dream of Balder . In the literary use of myth among the Celts a graver and more beautiful kind of imagination re- veals itself in contrast to the riot of distortion ; not always , indeed not ...
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...