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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... better what has been done , which , though not art them- selves , are the effectual powers which enable art to strive , to seek , and at last to reach its goal . - Moreover , no national art is good which is not plainly that nation's ...
... better what has been done , which , though not art them- selves , are the effectual powers which enable art to strive , to seek , and at last to reach its goal . - Moreover , no national art is good which is not plainly that nation's ...
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... better , I thought , to give literally the sense and the sentiment of the original than to strain them or lose them by a rigid adherence to allit- eration and accent . I have made clear the division of the Anglo - Saxon line by leaving ...
... better , I thought , to give literally the sense and the sentiment of the original than to strain them or lose them by a rigid adherence to allit- eration and accent . I have made clear the division of the Anglo - Saxon line by leaving ...
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... better lay lilted high our voice . listed haughty of their heart , clearly said in words had they never . The poem now represents his further wanderings among the Gothic tribes that , one after another , fought and began to settle in ...
... better lay lilted high our voice . listed haughty of their heart , clearly said in words had they never . The poem now represents his further wanderings among the Gothic tribes that , one after another , fought and began to settle in ...
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... better than any historical statement can do , that the first English were not in Britain , but in the Low Dutch lands and Den- mark - that there was an England there before our Eng- land . The first emigration was to Britain , the ...
... better than any historical statement can do , that the first English were not in Britain , but in the Low Dutch lands and Den- mark - that there was an England there before our Eng- land . The first emigration was to Britain , the ...
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... better discussed in another place . At present only one thing more remains before we come to the poem itself . It is to collect out of it the early history of its hero , and to bring that history up to the point at which the poem begins ...
... better discussed in another place . At present only one thing more remains before we come to the poem itself . It is to collect out of it the early history of its hero , and to bring that history up to the point at which the poem begins ...
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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.