The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Ælfred, by Stopford A. Brooke ...Macmillan and Company, 1892 - 500 páginas |
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... deep in the temperament of Cynewulf . Of this there is ample proof at the end of the Elene . In that poem Cynewulf sketches his early life as a poet . Once he received treasures and appled gold , once his youth was swift and happy , but ...
... deep in the temperament of Cynewulf . Of this there is ample proof at the end of the Elene . In that poem Cynewulf sketches his early life as a poet . Once he received treasures and appled gold , once his youth was swift and happy , but ...
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... deep - the chorus , as it were , of this story of the fates of men . Thus the ocean life , the ocean mystery , the battle with the ocean and on the ocean begin the English poetry , and they are as vivid in it now as they were in the ...
... deep - the chorus , as it were , of this story of the fates of men . Thus the ocean life , the ocean mystery , the battle with the ocean and on the ocean begin the English poetry , and they are as vivid in it now as they were in the ...
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... deep - the chorus , as it were , of this story of the fates of men . Thus the ocean life , the ocean mystery , the battle with the ocean and on the ocean begin the English poetry , and they are as vivid in it now as they were in the ...
... deep - the chorus , as it were , of this story of the fates of men . Thus the ocean life , the ocean mystery , the battle with the ocean and on the ocean begin the English poetry , and they are as vivid in it now as they were in the ...
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... deep blue water beyond spread out , between two rising nesses , to the entrance of the fiord through which , as through a gate , they saw the open sea . Only one figure animated this landscape , the Coast - ward , sitting high on his ...
... deep blue water beyond spread out , between two rising nesses , to the entrance of the fiord through which , as through a gate , they saw the open sea . Only one figure animated this landscape , the Coast - ward , sitting high on his ...
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... deep , narrow - entranced clefts filled with boiling waves , which invariably collect ghostly legend round their solitudes . The character of this man - beast is like his shape . He is said to be greedy of blood , fierce , ravenous ...
... deep , narrow - entranced clefts filled with boiling waves , which invariably collect ghostly legend round their solitudes . The character of this man - beast is like his shape . He is said to be greedy of blood , fierce , ravenous ...
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The History of Early English Literature Being the History of English Poetry ... Stopford Augustus Brooke Visualização integral - 1892 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ælfred Ætheling Alcuin ancient Andrew Anglo-Saxon poetry Baeda battle beast belong Beowulf Bishop Breca brought Caedmon Christ Christian Chronicle cliffs conjecture 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 hell Hengest Heorot hero Hildeburh holy host Hrothgar Hygd Hygelac imagination Ingeld Irish king land Latin legend Lindisfarne lines literary literature lived Lord Mercia monastery monk myth night noble Northumbria o'er ocean passage passion 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 tree verse Wanderer warriors waves Welsh Wessex West Saxon Whitby whole Widsith Woden words writer written Wyrd
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Página 165 - ... in shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour ; wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke finely...