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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Página 190
... at a different date from Rome was a very serious thing ; it touched the headship of Rome . Even Baeda seems to lose his temper over it . But since you are strangers and have come from a 190 CHAP . EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... at a different date from Rome was a very serious thing ; it touched the headship of Rome . Even Baeda seems to lose his temper over it . But since you are strangers and have come from a 190 CHAP . EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Página 192
... Baeda's contemporaries had seen these altars when he was a boy . His son Eorpwald became a Chris- tian , but was slain by a pagan , under whom the province was again heathen for three years . Then Sigeberht came to the throne , who ...
... Baeda's contemporaries had seen these altars when he was a boy . His son Eorpwald became a Chris- tian , but was slain by a pagan , under whom the province was again heathen for three years . Then Sigeberht came to the throne , who ...
Página 193
... Baeda tells , in his Life of Cuthbert , chap . iii . , how , when the boats bring- ing wood to the monastery near the mouth of the Tyne were swept out to sea , and the monks tried in vain to rescue them , the multitude of country folk ...
... Baeda tells , in his Life of Cuthbert , chap . iii . , how , when the boats bring- ing wood to the monastery near the mouth of the Tyne were swept out to sea , and the monks tried in vain to rescue them , the multitude of country folk ...
Página 198
... Baeda without seeing the truth of this statement . The book , in all its stories , is steeped in poetic feeling . Religion , with its ideals , laid its hands of awe or of love on men from the king to the slave , and on all their ...
... Baeda without seeing the truth of this statement . The book , in all its stories , is steeped in poetic feeling . Religion , with its ideals , laid its hands of awe or of love on men from the king to the slave , and on all their ...
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... Baeda from legend to legend , whose songs are not of war but of spiritual peace , and who receive the warriors of Christ into the heavenly Hall and to the heavenly banquet . The relations of women to men , which we have seen honoured in ...
... Baeda from legend to legend , whose songs are not of war but of spiritual peace , and who receive the warriors of Christ into the heavenly Hall and to the heavenly banquet . The relations of women to men , which we have seen honoured in ...
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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.