The Epic of the Fall of Man: A Comparative Study of Caedmon, Dante and MiltonG. P. Putnam's sons, 1896 - 449 páginas |
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... dark , having no assistance at hand , and being without dictionary and without grammar . But now the darkness began to disappear , and a faint light arose to dispel the gloom in the Anglo - Saxon atmosphere . In 1659 the first Anglo ...
... dark , having no assistance at hand , and being without dictionary and without grammar . But now the darkness began to disappear , and a faint light arose to dispel the gloom in the Anglo - Saxon atmosphere . In 1659 the first Anglo ...
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... dark morass . His stature was enormous ; his strength far more than human ; his flesh invulnerable to all weapons of earthly mould ; and on his fingers were " hand- spurs , " more like to steel than human nails . This fiend hears , day ...
... dark morass . His stature was enormous ; his strength far more than human ; his flesh invulnerable to all weapons of earthly mould ; and on his fingers were " hand- spurs , " more like to steel than human nails . This fiend hears , day ...
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... darkness comes , he wars against Hróthgár , — alone against all ; -till at length the festive Hall stands empty , since none dares to battle with the unearthly foe and meet a certain death . Twelve winters ' tide was his rage endured ...
... darkness comes , he wars against Hróthgár , — alone against all ; -till at length the festive Hall stands empty , since none dares to battle with the unearthly foe and meet a certain death . Twelve winters ' tide was his rage endured ...
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... dark and stubborn flesh Recks not the force of arms : -such I forswear , Nor sword nor burnish'd shield of ample round Ask for the war ; all weaponless , hand to hand Beowulf will grapple with this nightly foe . There , as Heaven's ...
... dark and stubborn flesh Recks not the force of arms : -such I forswear , Nor sword nor burnish'd shield of ample round Ask for the war ; all weaponless , hand to hand Beowulf will grapple with this nightly foe . There , as Heaven's ...
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... dark and cold . At length , beneath the hill of mists - The Grendel came - a heaven - abandon'd wretch ; - The foul assassin thought in that high hall To gorge some human prey . Onwards he pass'd In darkness , till right near he might ...
... dark and cold . At length , beneath the hill of mists - The Grendel came - a heaven - abandon'd wretch ; - The foul assassin thought in that high hall To gorge some human prey . Onwards he pass'd In darkness , till right near he might ...
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The Epic of the Fall of Man: A Comparative Study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton Stephen Humphreys Villiers Gurteen Visualização integral - 1896 |
The Epic of the Fall of Man: A Comparative Study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton Stephen Humphreys Villiers Gurteen Visualização integral - 1896 |
The Epic of the Fall of Man: A Comparative Study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton Stephen Humphreys Villiers Gurteen Visualização integral - 1896 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abyss Adam Almighty Anglo Anglo-Saxon literature Anglo-Saxon poem Anglo-Saxon poet Arch-Fiend Archangel beauteous Beda beneath Beowulf bliss Cædmon celestial Chaos chasm Circle concave creation Dante Dante's dark deeds deep deepest Deity didst dire Divina Commedia divine doom dread dwell e'en Earth Elizabeth Elstob Empyrean England erelong eternal evil eyes Fall fell Fiend fierce fire flames Fréa fruit gates Geryon gleeman God's Grendel gulf hand hast hate hath heart Heaven Heavenly Hell Hell's holy horrid Hróthgár Inferno King length light literature Lord Lucifer manuscript Mead-hall messenger mighty Milton Milton's epic mind monastery narrative naught Night o'er opening Paradise Lost pass passage poetic pride punishment realm rebel Angels round ruin Satan Saxon seat Serpent shalt side sight sorrow soul sovereign spake Spheres spirits Starry Universe stood taste tells thee thou thought throne tion Tree of Death verse warriors words World
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Página 256 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
Página 290 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Página 259 - Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LOHD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Página 156 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity...
Página 144 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Página 156 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Página 260 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Página 181 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 357 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Página 284 - 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 ? Be...