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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... writer , or a name which as a wandering poet he assumed ; or , as it occurs only in the introduction , which was probably written much later than the body of the poem , it may be a title given to the poet by the writer of the ...
... writer , or a name which as a wandering poet he assumed ; or , as it occurs only in the introduction , which was probably written much later than the body of the poem , it may be a title given to the poet by the writer of the ...
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... writer really saw Hermanric and Attila before they became heroes of Teutonic saga , we transfer to him and to his poem our pleasure in their cycle of stories . The very possibility that he saw these men excites us . Moreover , if we ...
... writer really saw Hermanric and Attila before they became heroes of Teutonic saga , we transfer to him and to his poem our pleasure in their cycle of stories . The very possibility that he saw these men excites us . Moreover , if we ...
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... writer had done . To such persons , we owe , it may be , the homiletic parts of the poem . The final fortune that befell it was its translation into the Wessex dialect , and it is in that dialect that we possess it . The last thing to ...
... writer had done . To such persons , we owe , it may be , the homiletic parts of the poem . The final fortune that befell it was its translation into the Wessex dialect , and it is in that dialect that we possess it . The last thing to ...
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... writer I have seen blame , is the fashion of the Northmen . Every Icelandic story is full of it , and all who hear Beowulf boast are as much pleased as the above writer is displeased . Nor was he less prompt in the blood - feud than in ...
... writer I have seen blame , is the fashion of the Northmen . Every Icelandic story is full of it , and all who hear Beowulf boast are as much pleased as the above writer is displeased . Nor was he less prompt in the blood - feud than in ...
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... writer's mind Pyrs sceal on fenne gewunian , ana innan lande . " The giant shall dwell in the fen , alone in the land . " " In Evernight Grendel kept the misty moors . " Darkness is his native land , and helmèd night . There is no joy ...
... writer's mind Pyrs sceal on fenne gewunian , ana innan lande . " The giant shall dwell in the fen , alone in the land . " " In Evernight Grendel kept the misty moors . " Darkness is his native land , and helmèd night . There is no joy ...
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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.