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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Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Ælfred, by Stopford A. Brooke ... Stopford Augustus Brooke. 10474.6.2A VERO TAS HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY THE HISTORY OF EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE M 6 4 56.
Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Ælfred, by Stopford A. Brooke ... Stopford Augustus Brooke. 10474.6.2A VERO TAS HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY THE HISTORY OF EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE M 6 4 56.
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Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Ælfred, by Stopford A. Brooke ... kings and tribes that Widsith had visited . An interpolation then of twelve lines succeeds , and may have been inserted in ...
Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Ælfred, by Stopford A. Brooke ... kings and tribes that Widsith had visited . An interpolation then of twelve lines succeeds , and may have been inserted in ...
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... King of the Myrgings , to seek the home of Eormanric ( Hermanric ) , King of the Ostrogoths who lived " east from Ongle " ; and this was his first journey . 2 3 Here the Introduction ceases , and at the 10th line Widsith himself ...
... King of the Myrgings , to seek the home of Eormanric ( Hermanric ) , King of the Ostrogoths who lived " east from Ongle " ; and this was his first journey . 2 3 Here the Introduction ceases , and at the 10th line Widsith himself ...
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... kings , the geographical details it contains would fall in with the temper of the king who trans- lated and added to Orosius , who wrote down from Ohthere's and Wulfstan's lips their voyages to the North Sea , and to the mouth of the ...
... kings , the geographical details it contains would fall in with the temper of the king who trans- lated and added to Orosius , who wrote down from Ohthere's and Wulfstan's lips their voyages to the North Sea , and to the mouth of the ...
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... king or the hall of a great noble . He was frequently one of the thegns , and received money and landright from the king . He may have been , if not a thegn , on an equality with them ; and was often , as we see in Beowulf , a renowned ...
... king or the hall of a great noble . He was frequently one of the thegns , and received money and landright from the king . He may have been , if not a thegn , on an equality with them ; and was often , as we see in Beowulf , a renowned ...
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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.