Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - English literature |
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... Poet ) , in the Complaint of Deor , is not so happy as Widsith . He is no rover , but lives with his lord , and has from him lands and wealth . But his rival , Heorrenda , supplants him , and this song is written to console his heart ...
... Poet ) , in the Complaint of Deor , is not so happy as Widsith . He is no rover , but lives with his lord , and has from him lands and wealth . But his rival , Heorrenda , supplants him , and this song is written to console his heart ...
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... poet at some noble's court , and which treat of natural phenomena , of war and armour , of the feast and the hall of the folk , of daily life in the settlements , of hunting and cattle , of forest and fish and bird . The first five ...
... poet at some noble's court , and which treat of natural phenomena , of war and armour , of the feast and the hall of the folk , of daily life in the settlements , of hunting and cattle , of forest and fish and bird . The first five ...
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... poet comes to gentler matters the spirit of the poem is changed . The Christian sentiment for soft landscape , its love of animals , and its tender domestic feeling touch the verse , in a pathetic mingling , with grace and delicacy ...
... poet comes to gentler matters the spirit of the poem is changed . The Christian sentiment for soft landscape , its love of animals , and its tender domestic feeling touch the verse , in a pathetic mingling , with grace and delicacy ...
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... poet does not intrude into the poems . The second school of Christian poetry is clearly divided from its predecessor . Cynewulf was its founder and its best artist . Its subjects are drawn from the New Testament and the martyr stories ...
... poet does not intrude into the poems . The second school of Christian poetry is clearly divided from its predecessor . Cynewulf was its founder and its best artist . Its subjects are drawn from the New Testament and the martyr stories ...
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... poet seems to write like a young man . His metrical movement is steadier here than in the other poems . He uses almost invariably the short epic line into the usage of which English poetry had now drifted . Rhyme , also , and assonance ...
... poet seems to write like a young man . His metrical movement is steadier here than in the other poems . He uses almost invariably the short epic line into the usage of which English poetry had now drifted . Rhyme , also , and assonance ...
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Page 369 - ... shores And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 368 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low. Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 372 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt ; the...
Page 409 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 366 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 360 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Page 370 - 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 353 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 369 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 373 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st...