From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIIIMacmillan, 1903 |
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Pàgina 2
... manners , their religion , all are changed . Nothing of the kind happens in England . The borrowings from the old British language are indeed extensive , but they nearly all consist of common words , descrip- tive of ordinary things ...
... manners , their religion , all are changed . Nothing of the kind happens in England . The borrowings from the old British language are indeed extensive , but they nearly all consist of common words , descrip- tive of ordinary things ...
Pàgina 9
... manners depicted are those of the Anglo - Saxons in their ancient seats before their arrival in Britain . Whensoever the poem may have been written , it is , in all respects but one , faithful to the feelings and ideas which obtained at ...
... manners depicted are those of the Anglo - Saxons in their ancient seats before their arrival in Britain . Whensoever the poem may have been written , it is , in all respects but one , faithful to the feelings and ideas which obtained at ...
Pàgina 12
... manners . If the poet neither translated nor invented , he can only have adapted ; and it is sufficiently probable that ... manner of man was the Anglo - Saxon author ? Most of the critics who have touched upon the question have seemed ...
... manners . If the poet neither translated nor invented , he can only have adapted ; and it is sufficiently probable that ... manner of man was the Anglo - Saxon author ? Most of the critics who have touched upon the question have seemed ...
Pàgina 15
... is certain that the finest falcons come from Iceland . The Celtic romances are too late or too interpolated to contribute much to the elucidation of the subject . Manners of the age of Beowulf Episodes in Beowulf nobles.
... is certain that the finest falcons come from Iceland . The Celtic romances are too late or too interpolated to contribute much to the elucidation of the subject . Manners of the age of Beowulf Episodes in Beowulf nobles.
Pàgina 16
... manners of the remote past . It shows that the Northern peoples of its age were by no means barbarous , but that even material civilisation was fairly advanced among them ; while , except for the general licence of warring and ...
... manners of the remote past . It shows that the Northern peoples of its age were by no means barbarous , but that even material civilisation was fairly advanced among them ; while , except for the general licence of warring and ...
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From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIII, by Richard Garnett Richard Garnett,Edmund Gosse Visualització de fragments - 1935 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 214 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Pàgina 350 - With eyes cast up into the maidens' tower, And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love; The stately seats, the ladies bright of hue, The dances short, long tales of great delight; With words and looks that tigers could but rue, Where each of us did plead the other's right...
Pàgina 214 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
Pàgina 77 - We must now proceed to the two great poems which were produced at the end of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century.
Pàgina 286 - Worship all ye that lovers be this May, For of your bliss the kalends are begun, And sing with us, away, winter away, Come, summer come, the sweet season and sun.
Pàgina 350 - Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth. Our tender limbs, that yet shot up in length. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise ; Recording soft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.
Pàgina 347 - My lute, awake, perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun, And when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done.
Pàgina 347 - The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection: So that I am past remedy; Whereby my lute and I have done. Proud of the spoil...
Pàgina 166 - And with that word, naked, with ful good herte, Among the serpents in the pit she sterte, And ther she chees to han hir buryinge. Anoon the neddres gonne...
Pàgina 256 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.