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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... hearts , how did they shape their work that is the vital , the interesting question ; and to answer it , the poetry itself must be read . I have therefore not written much about the poems , but I have translated a great quantity of what ...
... hearts , how did they shape their work that is the vital , the interesting question ; and to answer it , the poetry itself must be read . I have therefore not written much about the poems , but I have translated a great quantity of what ...
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... heart in the dealing of rings . " These names occur in the long list of kings and tribes whom he visited a list which has certainly undergone some later interpolations . Many of the ancient names belong to the North German cycle of ...
... heart in the dealing of rings . " These names occur in the long list of kings and tribes whom he visited a list which has certainly undergone some later interpolations . Many of the ancient names belong to the North German cycle of ...
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... 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 the provinces of Italy ; and again , when he grew older , his ...
... 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 the provinces of Italy ; and again , when he grew older , his ...
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... heart with " an arrow from his hornèd bow , " and Beowulf , more than sixty years afterwards , recalls in a pathetic passage the terrible grief of Hrethel , and compares it to the grief of an aged freeman who lives to see his young son ...
... heart with " an arrow from his hornèd bow , " and Beowulf , more than sixty years afterwards , recalls in a pathetic passage the terrible grief of Hrethel , and compares it to the grief of an aged freeman who lives to see his young son ...
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... heart Heaven devoured the smoke . Beowulf , 1. 3148 . This was the burning ; after the burning the barrow is raised ; and it shall be told at the end how the people of the Weders built up on the point of the Ness a mound , high and ...
... heart Heaven devoured the smoke . Beowulf , 1. 3148 . This was the burning ; after the burning the barrow is raised ; and it shall be told at the end how the people of the Weders built up on the point of the Ness a mound , high and ...
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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.