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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... learning were destroyed . All the Muses were now silent . But before Ælfred died a new English literature had begun , and in a new land , and the King was himself its origin . What had been was poetry ; this was prose . The country of ...
... learning were destroyed . All the Muses were now silent . But before Ælfred died a new English literature had begun , and in a new land , and the King was himself its origin . What had been was poetry ; this was prose . The country of ...
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... learning which had been set up before the death of Baeda . And so , I bid this book farewell . It has tried , with many others , to save for remembrance and seclude for thought the neglected lands of early English poetry . Like the ...
... learning which had been set up before the death of Baeda . And so , I bid this book farewell . It has tried , with many others , to save for remembrance and seclude for thought the neglected lands of early English poetry . Like the ...
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... learning ; guarded him kindly with honour , ” and avenged him when he was slain . He kept it in generosity , for he gave away all the gifts he received ; in courtesy , for he gave gifts even to those who had been rude to him , and he is ...
... learning ; guarded him kindly with honour , ” and avenged him when he was slain . He kept it in generosity , for he gave away all the gifts he received ; in courtesy , for he gave gifts even to those who had been rude to him , and he is ...
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... learning of Amesbury , we have an additional pleasure in thinking of the conquest his story made in after years of the imagination of the English people . If he actually brought a comfortable calm after the " tempest of ruin " which ...
... learning of Amesbury , we have an additional pleasure in thinking of the conquest his story made in after years of the imagination of the English people . If he actually brought a comfortable calm after the " tempest of ruin " which ...
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... learning to the monasteries and good manners to the land . The hope was not fulfilled . The new - born Muse in the loveliest of cradles , found it in the tale of Arthur . " Girt with British and Armorick Knights , " Arthur kindled the ...
... learning to the monasteries and good manners to the land . The hope was not fulfilled . The new - born Muse in the loveliest of cradles , found it in the tale of Arthur . " Girt with British and Armorick Knights , " Arthur kindled the ...
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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.