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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... translations of poetry , a merely prose translation is the most inaccurate . - - The translations here given are as accurate as I could make them . I do not mean that there are no mistakes in them , which would be an insolence I should ...
... translations of poetry , a merely prose translation is the most inaccurate . - - The translations here given are as accurate as I could make them . I do not mean that there are no mistakes in them , which would be an insolence I should ...
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... translate . A translation made in any one of our existing rhyming metres seemed to me as much out of the question as a prose translation . None of these metres resemble those of Anglo- Saxon poetry ; and , moreover , their associations ...
... translate . A translation made in any one of our existing rhyming metres seemed to me as much out of the question as a prose translation . None of these metres resemble those of Anglo- Saxon poetry ; and , moreover , their associations ...
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... translation . The two half - lines are , of course , intended to be read right across the page , with a slight pause upon the space between them . I think the method used is on the whole the right method , but I am by no means satisfied ...
... translation . The two half - lines are , of course , intended to be read right across the page , with a slight pause upon the space between them . I think the method used is on the whole the right method , but I am by no means satisfied ...
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... translation of the poems into German I owe my first appreciation of the poetry of early England . The reading of that translation made me eager to read the poems in the original , and I could not rest till I was able to do so . When I ...
... translation of the poems into German I owe my first appreciation of the poetry of early England . The reading of that translation made me eager to read the poems in the original , and I could not rest till I was able to do so . When I ...
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... translation - and I read fremdum instead of fremdes - that the warriors enjoy the singing of a stranger , since he is new to them , more than the singing of their own bards . Deor's , a fixed place , with an appointment of 8 CHAP ...
... translation - and I read fremdum instead of fremdes - that the warriors enjoy the singing of a stranger , since he is new to them , more than the singing of their own bards . Deor's , a fixed place , with an appointment of 8 CHAP ...
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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.