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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... passage ; I quote from memory . I may as well say in this note that the mention of Attila in Widsith , in our earliest English poem , written perhaps before the English left for Britain , adds an additional interest to Mr. Hodgkin's ...
... passage ; I quote from memory . I may as well say in this note that the mention of Attila in Widsith , in our earliest English poem , written perhaps before the English left for Britain , adds an additional interest to Mr. Hodgkin's ...
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... passage the terrible grief of Hrethel , and compares it to the grief of an aged freeman who lives to see his young son hung on the gallows tree , a joy of ravens . Old and gray - headed , he can give his boy no help . Morning after ...
... passage the terrible grief of Hrethel , and compares it to the grief of an aged freeman who lives to see his young son hung on the gallows tree , a joy of ravens . Old and gray - headed , he can give his boy no help . Morning after ...
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... passage from Ælfred's Orosius where Ohthere gives an account to the king of the scenery of the North- men's coast . In his time there was , no doubt , in South Sweden and Jutland a wider fringe between the sea and the moor than that ...
... passage from Ælfred's Orosius where Ohthere gives an account to the king of the scenery of the North- men's coast . In his time there was , no doubt , in South Sweden and Jutland a wider fringe between the sea and the moor than that ...
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... passage to quote the following from an account which Priscus gives of a banquet to which Attila invited him ( 448 A.D. ) . The singing habits are the same- nay , the very feelings : " When evening came on , torches were lighted , and ...
... passage to quote the following from an account which Priscus gives of a banquet to which Attila invited him ( 448 A.D. ) . The singing habits are the same- nay , the very feelings : " When evening came on , torches were lighted , and ...
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... passage before- " Not in earth's breast , nor deep in the sea , nor in the mountain holt , nor in the abyss of ocean , go where she will , shall Grendel's kin escape from me . " They mount their horses then and ride to the cliffs , to ...
... passage before- " Not in earth's breast , nor deep in the sea , nor in the mountain holt , nor in the abyss of ocean , go where she will , shall Grendel's kin escape from me . " They mount their horses then and ride to the cliffs , to ...
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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 481 - ROGER OF WENDOVER'S Flowers of History, comprising the History of England from the Descent of the Saxons to AD 1235, formerly ascribed to Matthew Paris.
Página 290 - 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 481 - Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai ; to which are added, Extracts from his Chronology of the Egyptians, with reference to the Exodus of the Israelites.
Página 409 - 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 138 - His colour sicken'd more and more, He faded into age ; And then his enemies began To show their deadly rage.
Página 298 - 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 480 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.
Página 480 - DYER'S (TFT) British Popular Customs, Present and Past. An Account of the various Games and Customs associated with different Days of the Year in the British Isles, arranged according to the Calendar. By the Rev. TF Thiseltoo Dyer, MA EARLY TRAVELS IN PALESTINE.
Página 290 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail...
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...