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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... side , and absolute error on that of his opponent . Yet , strange as it may appear at first sight , this was the first time since the Anglo - Saxon had yielded to the Norman that the long - forgotten Anglo - Saxon writings were taken ...
... side , and absolute error on that of his opponent . Yet , strange as it may appear at first sight , this was the first time since the Anglo - Saxon had yielded to the Norman that the long - forgotten Anglo - Saxon writings were taken ...
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... side . His noble " hearth - sharers " gather around him . The minstrel strikes his " glee - beam . " The war - men throng the benches . The bright armour once again glistens in the flicker of the log fires . The vats labour under their ...
... side . His noble " hearth - sharers " gather around him . The minstrel strikes his " glee - beam . " The war - men throng the benches . The bright armour once again glistens in the flicker of the log fires . The vats labour under their ...
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... companions of Beówulf , fearing that their lord is being overmatched , draw their swords and smite . on every side . They know not that no war - blade will cut into the fiend's flesh . Vain are their Study of Anglo - Saxon 35.
... companions of Beówulf , fearing that their lord is being overmatched , draw their swords and smite . on every side . They know not that no war - blade will cut into the fiend's flesh . Vain are their Study of Anglo - Saxon 35.
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... side . Then is Hertha ordered to be adorned anew . The golden webs , ( the embroidered hangings ) , shine once again on the walls , full of wondrous sights . The arm of the eoten with its hand , and " handspurs as of steel , " is hung ...
... side . Then is Hertha ordered to be adorned anew . The golden webs , ( the embroidered hangings ) , shine once again on the walls , full of wondrous sights . The arm of the eoten with its hand , and " handspurs as of steel , " is hung ...
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... side standing guard while he drinks the accus- tomed toast , in accordance with the traditions of an earlier age . To the student of language , of literature , and of social observances , this study is all - important . But it has ...
... side standing guard while he drinks the accus- tomed toast , in accordance with the traditions of an earlier age . To the student of language , of literature , and of social observances , this study is all - important . But it has ...
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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
Passagens conhecidas
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...