The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King AElfred, Volume 2Macmillan, 1892 - 502 páginas |
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... Baeda . And So , I bid this book farewell . It has tried , with many others , to save for remembrance and seclude for thought the neglected lands of early English poetry . Like the ancient places of this country where our forefathers ...
... Baeda . And So , I bid this book farewell . It has tried , with many others , to save for remembrance and seclude for thought the neglected lands of early English poetry . Like the ancient places of this country where our forefathers ...
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... Baeda ) , telling , as Greek and Roman did , alternate tales . The player beat the harp in time with the thoughts and images of his song ; his voice rang out the alliterated words and the accented syllables of the verses . Gesture ...
... Baeda ) , telling , as Greek and Roman did , alternate tales . The player beat the harp in time with the thoughts and images of his song ; his voice rang out the alliterated words and the accented syllables of the verses . Gesture ...
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... Baeda - Rheda ( Hrede ) and Eostra ( Eastre ) , nature - deities , both of them probably personifications of the glory and brightness of the summer . Rheda , according to Grimm , is the shining and renownful goddess ; Eostra the radiant ...
... Baeda - Rheda ( Hrede ) and Eostra ( Eastre ) , nature - deities , both of them probably personifications of the glory and brightness of the summer . Rheda , according to Grimm , is the shining and renownful goddess ; Eostra the radiant ...
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... Baeda , and Dunstan . Nor is it less strange to read of his misery for the trampling out of Chris- tianity by the hoofs of pagans who not so very long after pro- duced the first extant Christian poem in any modern tongue , whose schools ...
... Baeda , and Dunstan . Nor is it less strange to read of his misery for the trampling out of Chris- tianity by the hoofs of pagans who not so very long after pro- duced the first extant Christian poem in any modern tongue , whose schools ...
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... Baeda bears the same testimony . I cannot help thinking that this unity of the Angles had something to do with the rise of vernacular literature in the north rather than in . the south of England . Those nearest the seaboard left first ...
... Baeda bears the same testimony . I cannot help thinking that this unity of the Angles had something to do with the rise of vernacular literature in the north rather than in . the south of England . Those nearest the seaboard left first ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ælfred Ætheling Alcuin ancient Andrew Anglo-Saxon Baeda battle beast belong Beowulf Bishop Breca brought Caedmon Christ Christian cliffs conjecture Cuthbert Cynewulf Danes death dragon Ealdhelm earth Ecgberht eighth century Elene England English poetry Exeter Book Fates fight Geat Genesis glory Grendel Guthlac hall hand heart heathen Heaven Heliand hell helm Hengest Heorot hero holy host Hrothgar Hygd Hygelac imagination Ingeld Irish king land Latin legend Lindisfarne lines literary literature lived Lord Mercia monastery monks myth night noble North Northumbria o'er ocean passage phrase poem poet poetic riddle Roman Rood runes saga sang says Sceaf Scyld seems shield ship sing song sorrow soul speaks spears spirit storm story sung sword tale tells Teutonic thee thegns things thou thought translation trees verse Wanderer warriors waves Welsh Wessex West Saxon Whitby whole Widsith Woden words writer written Wyrd