The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Ælfred, Volume 2Macmillan, 1892 - 502 páginas |
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... Christ . I saw these sheets after I had made the translations of the Christ contained in this book , and before he had re - written his translation as it now appears . I made some changes in my translation and adopted some of his ...
... Christ . I saw these sheets after I had made the translations of the Christ contained in this book , and before he had re - written his translation as it now appears . I made some changes in my translation and adopted some of his ...
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... CHRIST AND SATAN " " JUDITH " AND OTHER CAEDMONIAN POEMS 325 332 - XXI . NORTHUMBRIAN LITERATURE OTHER THAN ENGLISH . 341 XXII . " THE DISCOURSE OF THE SOUL TO THE BODY " AND " THE ELEGIAC POEMS " 352 XXIII . XXIV . XXV . CYNEWULF 371 ...
... CHRIST AND SATAN " " JUDITH " AND OTHER CAEDMONIAN POEMS 325 332 - XXI . NORTHUMBRIAN LITERATURE OTHER THAN ENGLISH . 341 XXII . " THE DISCOURSE OF THE SOUL TO THE BODY " AND " THE ELEGIAC POEMS " 352 XXIII . XXIV . XXV . CYNEWULF 371 ...
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... Christ , Guthlac , Azarias , The Phoenix , Juliana , The W Gifts of Men , The Seafarer , Widsith , Fates of Men , Gnomic Ver Panther , Whale and Partridge , The Soul to its Body , Deor , Riddl The Wife's Complaint , The Descent into ...
... Christ , Guthlac , Azarias , The Phoenix , Juliana , The W Gifts of Men , The Seafarer , Widsith , Fates of Men , Gnomic Ver Panther , Whale and Partridge , The Soul to its Body , Deor , Riddl The Wife's Complaint , The Descent into ...
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... Christ brings him from Cain , with other dreadful creatures and elfs and orks and the giants ( with a classical rem who fought with God . In all this he is the impers the superstitious dread which men felt when they lo their island of ...
... Christ brings him from Cain , with other dreadful creatures and elfs and orks and the giants ( with a classical rem who fought with God . In all this he is the impers the superstitious dread which men felt when they lo their island of ...
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... Christ , and the worship of the Magi . In runic writing near the th word Magi is cut . Stephens identified the carving on the top and the casket as the Taking of Jerusalem , the Beheading of John the the Suckling of Romulus and Remus by ...
... Christ , and the worship of the Magi . In runic writing near the th word Magi is cut . Stephens identified the carving on the top and the casket as the Taking of Jerusalem , the Beheading of John the the Suckling of Romulus and Remus by ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ælfred Ætheling Aidan Alcuin Aldfrith ancient Andrew angels Anglo-Saxon Baeda battle belong Benedict Biscop Beowulf Bishop brought Caedmon Canterbury Celtic Christ Christian church cliffs Columba conjecture Cuthbert Cynewulf Danes death Eadwine Ealdhelm earth Ecgberht eighth century Elene England English poetry fight Geat Genesis glory Grendel Guthlac hall hand heard heart heathen heaven Heliand hell Heorot hero holy host Hrothgar Hygelac Iona Irish king land Latin learning legend Lindisfarne lines literary literature lived Lord Mercia monastery monks night noble North Northumbria o'er ocean Oswald passage passion phrase poem poet poetic riddle Roman Rome runes saga says Sceaf scholars Scyld seems seventh century sing song sorrow soul spears spirit story sword tells Teutonic thee thegns Theodore things thou thought translation tree verse wandering warriors waves Welsh Wessex West Saxon Whitby whole Widsith Woden words write written wrote
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Página 271 - To waste his whole creation, or possess All as our own, and drive as we were driven The puny habitants ; or if not drive, Seduce them to our party, that their God May prove their foe, and with repenting hand Abolish his own works. This would surpass...
Página 154 - They filled up a darksome pit With water to the brim; They heaved in John Barleycorn, There let him sink or swim. They laid him out upon the floor, To work him further woe; And still, as signs of life appear'd, They toss'd him to and fro.
Página 269 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Página 256 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe...
Página 154 - And they hae ta'en his very heart's blood. And drank it round and round ; And still the more and more they drank, Their joy did more abound. John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, Twill make your courage rise. Twill make a man forget his woe ; Twill heighten all his joy: Twill make the widow's heart to sing, Tho* the tear were in her eye.
Página 380 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 271 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light...
Página 256 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail...
Página 271 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Página 181 - ... when it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string : next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth onely by the bill : in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose...