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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... FIGHT AT FINNSBURG " 1 • 12 26 . · • 69 59 V. VI . • THE MYTHICAL ELEMENTS IN " BEOWULF " WALDHERE • 74 93 VII . THE CONQUEST AND LITERATURE 101 VIII . IX . X. XI . XII . XIII . XIV . XVI . XVII . " GENESIS B " XVIII . ARMOUR AND WAR IN ...
... FIGHT AT FINNSBURG " 1 • 12 26 . · • 69 59 V. VI . • THE MYTHICAL ELEMENTS IN " BEOWULF " WALDHERE • 74 93 VII . THE CONQUEST AND LITERATURE 101 VIII . IX . X. XI . XII . XIII . XIV . XVI . XVII . " GENESIS B " XVIII . ARMOUR AND WAR IN ...
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... Fight at Finnsburg . It only exists in a copy of it made by Hickes from a leaf of parchment used in the bind- ing of a manuscript of homilies . This leaf , found in Lambeth Palace Library , is now lost . ( ii . ) Two vellum leaves found ...
... Fight at Finnsburg . It only exists in a copy of it made by Hickes from a leaf of parchment used in the bind- ing of a manuscript of homilies . This leaf , found in Lambeth Palace Library , is now lost . ( ii . ) Two vellum leaves found ...
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... fighting in Italy , probably during the inroad of Alaric and under his banner , in the beginning of the fifth century . If that explanation be rejected , the name Elfwine , unless we advance the date of the poem to the seventh century ...
... fighting in Italy , probably during the inroad of Alaric and under his banner , in the beginning of the fifth century . If that explanation be rejected , the name Elfwine , unless we advance the date of the poem to the seventh century ...
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... fighting with the Huns in the dark woods about the Vistula . " Often was battle fierce , " he sings , " when with hard swords the host of the Hreads had to guard the old fatherland against the bands of Etla ( Attila ) all about the ...
... fighting with the Huns in the dark woods about the Vistula . " Often was battle fierce , " he sings , " when with hard swords the host of the Hreads had to guard the old fatherland against the bands of Etla ( Attila ) all about the ...
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... fight at Finnsburg . We may be said to be present at the birth and to watch over the cradle of these great Teutonic sagas . Even if the poem be of the seventh century , and these sagas are behind it and not before it , this reflected ...
... fight at Finnsburg . We may be said to be present at the birth and to watch over the cradle of these great Teutonic sagas . Even if the poem be of the seventh century , and these sagas are behind it and not before it , this reflected ...
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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.