The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King ÆlfredBooks for Libraries Press, 1905 - 502 páginas |
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Página vii
... as closely as I could make it , the movement and the variety of the original verse . A prose trans- lation , even when it reaches excellence , gives no idea whatever of that to which the ancient English listened . The PREFACE vii.
... as closely as I could make it , the movement and the variety of the original verse . A prose trans- lation , even when it reaches excellence , gives no idea whatever of that to which the ancient English listened . The PREFACE vii.
Página viii
... ancient English listened . The original form is destroyed , and with it our imagination of the world to which the poet sang , of the way he thought , of how he shaped his emotion . Prose no more represents poetry than architec- ture ...
... ancient English listened . The original form is destroyed , and with it our imagination of the world to which the poet sang , of the way he thought , of how he shaped his emotion . Prose no more represents poetry than architec- ture ...
Página x
... ancient English only as litera- ture , could not have been written at all , or , at least , not on any sure foundation . No translation worth reading , or giving a clear representation of what the Anglo - Saxon poets thought or felt ...
... ancient English only as litera- ture , could not have been written at all , or , at least , not on any sure foundation . No translation worth reading , or giving a clear representation of what the Anglo - Saxon poets thought or felt ...
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... ancient English poetry . Professor Grein is gone from us , but he will never be forgot- ten . To his Dictionary I owe my first interest in the Anglo- Saxon language , my first understanding of its power and charm . To his translation of ...
... ancient English poetry . Professor Grein is gone from us , but he will never be forgot- ten . To his Dictionary I owe my first interest in the Anglo- Saxon language , my first understanding of its power and charm . To his translation of ...
Página xii
... ancient places of this country where our forefathers met together for religion or war or council , they seem to appeal to England to take care of them , to give them interest and affection . Far too few of them remain , far too many of ...
... ancient places of this country where our forefathers met together for religion or war or council , they seem to appeal to England to take care of them , to give them interest and affection . Far too few of them remain , far too many of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ælfred Ætheling Alcuin ancient Andrew angels Anglo-Saxon poetry Baeda battle beast belong Beowulf Bishop Breca brought Caedmon Christ Christian cliffs conjecture Cuthbert 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 Heliand hell helm Hengest Heorot hero holy host Hrothgar Hygd Hygelac imagination Ingeld Irish king land Latin legend Lindisfarne lines literary literature lived Lord Mercia monastery monks myth night noble Northumbria o'er ocean passage phrase poem poet poetic riddle Roman Rood runes saga sang says Sceaf Scyld seems ship sing song sorrow soul speaks spears spirit storm story sung sword tale tells Teutonic thee thegns things thou thought translation trees verse Wanderer warriors waves Welsh Wessex West Saxon Whitby whole Widsith Woden words writer written Wyrd
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Página 307 - 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 152 - 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 farther woe ; And still, as signs of life appear'd, They toss'd him to and fro.
Página 306 - 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 152 - His head weel arm'd wi' pointed spears, That no one should him wrong. The sober Autumn enter'd mild, When he grew wan and pale ; His bending joints and drooping head Show'd he began to fail. His colour sicken'd more and more, He faded into age ; And then his enemies began To shew their deadly rage.
Página 306 - 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 424 - 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 306 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail...
Página 152 - And they hae taen 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
Página 314 - 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...
Página 497 - Mr. Gosse's book is one for the student because of its fulness, its trustworthiness, and its thorough soundness of criticisms; and one for the general reader because of its pleasantness and interest. It is a book, indeed, not easy to put down or to part with.