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... learned to string into rude verses the story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen ...
... learned to string into rude verses the story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen ...
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... learned men from France to preside over the leading schools . Much of his scanty leisure was spent in literary work , chiefly translations into Anglo - Saxon . His chief works were his versions of Bede's History of the Anglo - Saxon ...
... learned men from France to preside over the leading schools . Much of his scanty leisure was spent in literary work , chiefly translations into Anglo - Saxon . His chief works were his versions of Bede's History of the Anglo - Saxon ...
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... learned tongue of Europe was then , as it long continued to be , Latin , the writing of which was revived in England by Augustine and his monks . In the stern soldiering days of the Roman period , much Latin had been spoken and read ...
... learned tongue of Europe was then , as it long continued to be , Latin , the writing of which was revived in England by Augustine and his monks . In the stern soldiering days of the Roman period , much Latin had been spoken and read ...
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... a proud one , for he was recognised as chief among the dis- tinguished group of wits and lettered men who encircled the throne of Charlemagne . The name by which he was known in ERIGENA , THE LEARNED LAYMAN . 25 this brilliant circle.
... a proud one , for he was recognised as chief among the dis- tinguished group of wits and lettered men who encircled the throne of Charlemagne . The name by which he was known in ERIGENA , THE LEARNED LAYMAN . 25 this brilliant circle.
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... learned leisure in training a new generation of scholars , and in writing most of those books by which his name has come down to us . At Tours he died in 804 . The Letters of Alcuin give a life - like picture of the great events of his ...
... learned leisure in training a new generation of scholars , and in writing most of those books by which his name has come down to us . At Tours he died in 804 . The Letters of Alcuin give a life - like picture of the great events of his ...
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Page 348 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 390 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone...
Page 207 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 348 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 338 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Page 376 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 361 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 209 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
Page 209 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...
Page 390 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves