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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... Wanderer . How to translate them was my chief difficulty . It was necessary , above all , that the translation should be accurate , but it was also necessary that it should have , as far as possible , the rhythmical movement of verse ...
... Wanderer . How to translate them was my chief difficulty . It was necessary , above all , that the translation should be accurate , but it was also necessary that it should have , as far as possible , the rhythmical movement of verse ...
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... Wanderer , Gifts of Men , The Seafarer , Widsith , Fates of Men , Gnomic Verses , The Panther , Whale and Partridge , The Soul to its Body , Deor , Riddles 1-60 , The Wife's Complaint , The Descent into Hell , Riddle 61 , The Message of ...
... Wanderer , Gifts of Men , The Seafarer , Widsith , Fates of Men , Gnomic Verses , The Panther , Whale and Partridge , The Soul to its Body , Deor , Riddles 1-60 , The Wife's Complaint , The Descent into Hell , Riddle 61 , The Message of ...
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... Wanderer who looks back with mourning on the time when he was his master's favourite , he has been deprived of his rewards and lands , and has seen a rival set above his head . It is this whirling down of Fortune's wheel that he mourns ...
... Wanderer who looks back with mourning on the time when he was his master's favourite , he has been deprived of his rewards and lands , and has seen a rival set above his head . It is this whirling down of Fortune's wheel that he mourns ...
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... Wanderer , " or because , like Deor , he was dispossessed by a rival . Below the Scôp there were a great number of inferior singers who made it their business to go from place to place , to whom the name of Scôp was not given — who did ...
... Wanderer , " or because , like Deor , he was dispossessed by a rival . Below the Scôp there were a great number of inferior singers who made it their business to go from place to place , to whom the name of Scôp was not given — who did ...
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... wanderers on the sea may hereafter mark his lofty barrow . The cliff has its own name . Men saw from its height the whales tumbling in the waves , and called it Whale's Ness ( Hrones - naes ) . There then the folk of the Geats made ...
... wanderers on the sea may hereafter mark his lofty barrow . The cliff has its own name . Men saw from its height the whales tumbling in the waves , and called it Whale's Ness ( Hrones - naes ) . There then the folk of the Geats made ...
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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.