An Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse, with grammatical intr., notes, and glossary, by H. SweetClarendon Press, 1876 |
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Page 153 - Sweet, giving as his reasons the combination of the highest dramatic and constructive power with the utmost brilliance of language and metre, places Judith at the culminating point of the Old Northumbrian Literature.
Page 83 - In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum ; et Deus erat Verbum : hoc erat in principio apud Deum.
Page 1 - Chronicle.] THE following tragic narrative stands out conspicuously among the brief dry notices of which the Chronicle up to the time of Alfred is mainly composed : we do not meet with so vivid and circumstantial a piece of history till more than a hundred years later.
Page 35 - This is the most remarkable piece of writing in the whole series of Chronicles. It is a warm, vigorous, earnest narrative, free from the rigidity of the other annals, full of life and originality. Compared with this passage, every other piece of prose, not in these Chronicles merely, but throughout the whole range of extant Saxon literature, must assume a secondary rank.
Page xc - After this prayer a heavenly light appeared above the apostle, within the grave, shining for an hour so bright, that no man's sight might look on the rays of light ; and with that light he gave up his spirit to the Lord, who had invited him to his kingdom. He departed as joyfully from the pain of death, from this present life, as he was exempt from bodily defilement. Verily his grave was afterwards found filled with manna. Manna the heavenly meat was called which for forty years fed the people of...