The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Ælfred, by Stopford A. Brooke ...Macmillan and Company, 1892 - 500 páginas |
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... Baeda's story of the poet Caedmon that all men held his gift to be divinely given him of the Lord . Cynewulf , as I have quoted above , says that " God unlocked his breast and gave him back the power of song . " In the Gnomic Verses ...
... Baeda's story of the poet Caedmon that all men held his gift to be divinely given him of the Lord . Cynewulf , as I have quoted above , says that " God unlocked his breast and gave him back the power of song . " In the Gnomic Verses ...
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... end of this volume on the relation of Woden to Sceaf , and on the question as to whether the Angles gave the name of Woden to their highest God . - named by Baeda Rheda ( Hrede ) and Eostra 80 CHAP . EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... end of this volume on the relation of Woden to Sceaf , and on the question as to whether the Angles gave the name of Woden to their highest God . - named by Baeda Rheda ( Hrede ) and Eostra 80 CHAP . EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... Baeda Rheda ( Hrede ) and Eostra ( Eastre ) , nature - deities , both of them probably personifications of the glory and brightness of the summer . Rheda , according to Grimm , is the shining and renownful goddess ; Eostra the radiant ...
... Baeda Rheda ( Hrede ) and Eostra ( Eastre ) , nature - deities , both of them probably personifications of the glory and brightness of the summer . Rheda , according to Grimm , is the shining and renownful goddess ; Eostra the radiant ...
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... Baeda , and Dunstan . Nor is it less strange to read of his misery for the trampling out of Chris- tianity by the hoofs of pagans who not so very long after pro- duced the first extant Christian poem in any modern tongue , whose schools ...
... Baeda , and Dunstan . Nor is it less strange to read of his misery for the trampling out of Chris- tianity by the hoofs of pagans who not so very long after pro- duced the first extant Christian poem in any modern tongue , whose schools ...
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... Baeda bears the same testimony . I cannot help thinking that this unity of the Angles had something to do with the rise of vernacular literature in the north rather than in the south of England . Those nearest the seaboard left first ...
... Baeda bears the same testimony . I cannot help thinking that this unity of the Angles had something to do with the rise of vernacular literature in the north rather than in the south of England . Those nearest the seaboard left first ...
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Ælfred Alcuin ancient Andrew Baeda battle beast belong Beowulf Bishop Breca brought Caedmon Christ Christian Chronicle 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 North Northumbria o'er ocean passage phrase poem poet poetic riddle Roman Rood runes saga sang says Sceaf Scyld seems shield 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 310 - I appear''. shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to partake Full happiness with me; or rather not, But keep the odds of knowledge...
Página 432 - 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 432 - 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 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 dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.