The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King ÆlfredMacmillan, 1892 - 502 páginas |
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... head . It is this whirling down of Fortune's wheel that he mourns in his song , and he compares his fate to that of others who have suffered , so that he may have some comfort . But the comfort is stern like that the Northmen take ...
... head . It is this whirling down of Fortune's wheel that he mourns in his song , and he compares his fate to that of others who have suffered , so that he may have some comfort . But the comfort is stern like that the Northmen take ...
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... head ; Gave him to the sea . Mourning was their mood . None of heroes under heaven , For a truthful truth , who took up that lading . all of gold a standard , let the heaving ocean bear him , Sad was then their soul , None of men can ...
... head ; Gave him to the sea . Mourning was their mood . None of heroes under heaven , For a truthful truth , who took up that lading . all of gold a standard , let the heaving ocean bear him , Sad was then their soul , None of men can ...
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... head , is borne to the top of the great cliff that overlooks the sea , to the very edge , where the wanderers on the ... heads were molten , then out gushed the blood 1 Swio Sole is here , I think , the quivering clear space of vaporous ...
... head , is borne to the top of the great cliff that overlooks the sea , to the very edge , where the wanderers on the ... heads were molten , then out gushed the blood 1 Swio Sole is here , I think , the quivering clear space of vaporous ...
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... head of the bay , the low sandy shore on which they had driven their ship ; the ship itself tied by cables to the strand . The deep blue water beyond spread out , between two rising nesses , to the entrance of the fiord through which ...
... head of the bay , the low sandy shore on which they had driven their ship ; the ship itself tied by cables to the strand . The deep blue water beyond spread out , between two rising nesses , to the entrance of the fiord through which ...
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... head of a bay . The slopes rising into the nesses were " steep and stony , " and the trees that grew along the bed of the streams were rough and blasted by the sea salt and the wind- " a joyless wood . " And among these fiords , at the head ...
... head of a bay . The slopes rising into the nesses were " steep and stony , " and the trees that grew along the bed of the streams were rough and blasted by the sea salt and the wind- " a joyless wood . " And among these fiords , at the head ...
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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 cliffs coast conjecture Cuthbert Cynewulf Danes death dragon Ealdhelm earth Ecgberht eighth century Elene England English poetry Exeter Book Fates fight Geat Genesis glory Grendel Grendel's mother Guthlac hall hand heart heathen Heaven hell helm Hengest Heorot hero holy host Hrothgar Hygelac imagination Ingeld Irish king land Latin legend Lindisfarne lines literary literature lived Lord Mercia monastery monks myth night noble North 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 305 - 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 304 - 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 304 - 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 306 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala...
Página 150 - His colour sicken'd more and more, He faded into age ; And then his enemies began To show their deadly rage.
Página 304 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail...
Página 430 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream: Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered 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 312 - 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 502 - Mr. Saintsbury has produced a most useful, first-hand survey— comprehensive, compendious, and spirited — of that unique period of literary history when " all the muses still were in their prime." One knows not where else to look for so well-proportioned and well-ordered conspectus of the astonishingly varied and rich products of the teeming English mind during the century that begins with Tottel's Miscellany and the birth of Bacon, and closes with the Restoration.
Página 317 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them...