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... min- strelsy . But his happiness is short - lived . Grendel , a terrible monster dwelling in a neighboring fen by the sea , bursts into the hall at night , seizes thirty thanes , and drags them to 8 THE ANGLO - SAXON PERIOD.
... min- strelsy . But his happiness is short - lived . Grendel , a terrible monster dwelling in a neighboring fen by the sea , bursts into the hall at night , seizes thirty thanes , and drags them to 8 THE ANGLO - SAXON PERIOD.
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... lived and written in England ; therefore he is often called the father of English poetry . Moreover , the poems associated with his name contain the first expression in English poetry of the ideals of Christianity . Of the personality ...
... lived and written in England ; therefore he is often called the father of English poetry . Moreover , the poems associated with his name contain the first expression in English poetry of the ideals of Christianity . Of the personality ...
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... lived near to Cadmon in both time and place , the circum- stances which he so minutely records must have been generally accepted as facts . A version of the hymn which Cadmon sang in his dream has been preserved in his native ...
... lived near to Cadmon in both time and place , the circum- stances which he so minutely records must have been generally accepted as facts . A version of the hymn which Cadmon sang in his dream has been preserved in his native ...
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... lived and wrote in the latter part of the eighth century ; a man of learning well acquainted with Latin literature , and undoubtedly at some time the scop of a great chief . He was probably converted to the Christian faith late in life ...
... lived and wrote in the latter part of the eighth century ; a man of learning well acquainted with Latin literature , and undoubtedly at some time the scop of a great chief . He was probably converted to the Christian faith late in life ...
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... lived and died the scholar Bede , who had mastered Literature the entire learning of his time ; and Cynewulf was Northumbria certainly a member of some one of the Northum- brian brotherhoods . All of the Anglo - Saxon po- etry we have ...
... lived and died the scholar Bede , who had mastered Literature the entire learning of his time ; and Cynewulf was Northumbria certainly a member of some one of the Northum- brian brotherhoods . All of the Anglo - Saxon po- etry we have ...
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Page 196 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 148 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 348 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 259 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 428 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one...
Page 263 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 226 - If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.
Page 198 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 535 - Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight ? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, Telling a tale not too importunate To those who in the sleepy region stay, Lulled by the singer of an empty day.
Page 527 - Hark ! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops, — at the bent spray's edge, — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture.