Periods of European Literature, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1904 |
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... syllables long and long syllables short " —in all artistic respects inferior to Nero . Jordanes . Jordanes the Goth ( more accurately an Alan by descent ) has preserved in his abridgment the sub- stance of the lost book of Cassiodorus ...
... syllables long and long syllables short " —in all artistic respects inferior to Nero . Jordanes . Jordanes the Goth ( more accurately an Alan by descent ) has preserved in his abridgment the sub- stance of the lost book of Cassiodorus ...
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... syllables ; he is more respectable and correct . Theodulfus was a great per- sonage . One of his longer poems , his admonition to judges , contains a long and amusing account of his journey in the South as Missus Dominicus in 798 , and ...
... syllables ; he is more respectable and correct . Theodulfus was a great per- sonage . One of his longer poems , his admonition to judges , contains a long and amusing account of his journey in the South as Missus Dominicus in 798 , and ...
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... syllables exactly , so in Latin the tunes of common speech interfered with the strict use of prosody . The analogies between English and Latin poetry are striking , when their histories are compared . The Latin Saturnian , it has often ...
... syllables exactly , so in Latin the tunes of common speech interfered with the strict use of prosody . The analogies between English and Latin poetry are striking , when their histories are compared . The Latin Saturnian , it has often ...
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... " of the hymn - books : - " Hymnum dicat turba fratrum , Hymnum cantus personet ; Christo regi concinentes Laudes demus debitas . " out the opening syllable and put spondees where they ought 204 EUROPEAN LITERATURE - THE DARK AGES .
... " of the hymn - books : - " Hymnum dicat turba fratrum , Hymnum cantus personet ; Christo regi concinentes Laudes demus debitas . " out the opening syllable and put spondees where they ought 204 EUROPEAN LITERATURE - THE DARK AGES .
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George Saintsbury. out the opening syllable and put spondees where they ought not to be . And here again there is con- tinuity from early Latin times : " It has been remarked that lines from some of the early Tragedians read almost like ...
George Saintsbury. out the opening syllable and put spondees where they ought not to be . And here again there is con- tinuity from early Latin times : " It has been remarked that lines from some of the early Tragedians read almost like ...
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...