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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... whole of English song . It will be seen that a great number of the main branches of the tree of English poetry had already opened out at this time from the stem , and that the ideal and sentimental elements of the earliest poetry have ...
... whole of English song . It will be seen that a great number of the main branches of the tree of English poetry had already opened out at this time from the stem , and that the ideal and sentimental elements of the earliest poetry have ...
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... whole of it for the first time in 1815. This edition made the poem known , and it was discussed in English and foreign reviews . Meantime , in 1805 , Sharon Turner gave the first account of the poem in his history of the Anglo - Saxons ...
... whole of it for the first time in 1815. This edition made the poem known , and it was discussed in English and foreign reviews . Meantime , in 1805 , Sharon Turner gave the first account of the poem in his history of the Anglo - Saxons ...
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... whole by two other authors . The fifth - a reviser - added another portion and altered the previous work to suit his addition , and another reviser , the sixth in the series , increased the poem by episodes from other sagas and by ...
... whole by two other authors . The fifth - a reviser - added another portion and altered the previous work to suit his addition , and another reviser , the sixth in the series , increased the poem by episodes from other sagas and by ...
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... whole , the analysis Ten Brink , following others , makes of the origin of the lays ; but it does not dis- allow , but rather avers , that the poem , as we have it , was put into form by one poet , and with a distinct effort at unity of ...
... whole , the analysis Ten Brink , following others , makes of the origin of the lays ; but it does not dis- allow , but rather avers , that the poem , as we have it , was put into form by one poet , and with a distinct effort at unity of ...
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... whole , embodied the episodes out of other sagas , conceived the character of Beowulf afresh , and with an ethical purpose , made it the central motive of the whole , and wrote the poem , for the most part , as it is . This is different ...
... whole , embodied the episodes out of other sagas , conceived the character of Beowulf afresh , and with an ethical purpose , made it the central motive of the whole , and wrote the poem , for the most part , as it is . This is different ...
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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.