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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... things wrought in verse . " It is still kept in Exeter Cathedral , and has been there , since Leofric died in 1071 , for 821 years . It is a varied anthology , and con- tains poems which range from the eighth to the tenth or eleventh ...
... things wrought in verse . " It is still kept in Exeter Cathedral , and has been there , since Leofric died in 1071 , for 821 years . It is a varied anthology , and con- tains poems which range from the eighth to the tenth or eleventh ...
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... things described . The listeners often joined in , moved to excitement , and a whole chorus of voices filled the hall , the monastery , or the farm - building . As the practice of the art was widely spread , so was it greatly honoured ...
... things described . The listeners often joined in , moved to excitement , and a whole chorus of voices filled the hall , the monastery , or the farm - building . As the practice of the art was widely spread , so was it greatly honoured ...
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... things to think of . " To all men , " the versifier says , " wise words are becoming ; a song to the gleemen and wisdom to men . As many as men are on the earth , so many are their thoughts ; each to himself has a sepa- rate soul . So ...
... things to think of . " To all men , " the versifier says , " wise words are becoming ; a song to the gleemen and wisdom to men . As many as men are on the earth , so many are their thoughts ; each to himself has a sepa- rate soul . So ...
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... things are said of him " So shall a man do when he thinks to gain praise that shall never end , and cares not for his life in battle . " " Let us have fame or death ! " he cries ; and when Wiglaf comes to help him against the dragon ...
... things are said of him " So shall a man do when he thinks to gain praise that shall never end , and cares not for his life in battle . " " Let us have fame or death ! " he cries ; and when Wiglaf comes to help him against the dragon ...
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... things of fairness Never heard I of a keel With the weeds of war , With the bills and byrnies . A great heap of gems Far to fare away all at length they laid him the bracelet - giver , Many gifts were there , brought from far - off ways ...
... things of fairness Never heard I of a keel With the weeds of war , With the bills and byrnies . A great heap of gems Far to fare away all at length they laid him the bracelet - giver , Many gifts were there , brought from far - off ways ...
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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 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...