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Pàgina vii
... period when it is almost synonymous with poetry to the period when , in every department , it begins to challenge a place among the great literatures of the world . The writer upon whom such a task devolves encounters the obstacles , on ...
... period when it is almost synonymous with poetry to the period when , in every department , it begins to challenge a place among the great literatures of the world . The writer upon whom such a task devolves encounters the obstacles , on ...
Pàgina 7
... period , and were doubtless chanted in Angleland before the emigration to Britain . Poetry unquestionably existed among the Saxons and Angles and kindred German tribes before they came into contact with the Romans , and was an entirely ...
... period , and were doubtless chanted in Angleland before the emigration to Britain . Poetry unquestionably existed among the Saxons and Angles and kindred German tribes before they came into contact with the Romans , and was an entirely ...
Pàgina 10
... period previous to which it cannot have existed . This is the expedition of King Hygelac against the Frisians , in which he was defeated and slain . Beyond doubt Hygelac is to be identi- fied with Chochilaicus , recorded by Gregory of ...
... period previous to which it cannot have existed . This is the expedition of King Hygelac against the Frisians , in which he was defeated and slain . Beyond doubt Hygelac is to be identi- fied with Chochilaicus , recorded by Gregory of ...
Pàgina 13
... period and occasion of his work . Strong reasons , derived from names of places and the character of the scenery , have been assigned for holding him to have belonged to Northumbria . Ten Brink , however , declares the dialect to be ...
... period and occasion of his work . Strong reasons , derived from names of places and the character of the scenery , have been assigned for holding him to have belonged to Northumbria . Ten Brink , however , declares the dialect to be ...
Pàgina 16
... period ; enough , indeed , is left to have rendered probable , even had Beowulf been lost , the existence of a considerable romantic and metrical literature which had disappeared in the unheroic atmosphere of later monkish ideals and ...
... period ; enough , indeed , is left to have rendered probable , even had Beowulf been lost , the existence of a considerable romantic and metrical literature which had disappeared in the unheroic atmosphere of later monkish ideals and ...
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English Literature Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D., Edmund Gosse, M.A., LL.D. Visualització de fragments - 1931 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 128 - Per 1' altru' impoverir se' ricca e grande ; Poi che di mal oprar tanto ti giova : Nido di tradimenti ; in cui si cova Quanto mal per lo mondo oggi si spande ; Di vin serva, di letti e di vivande, In cui lussuria fa 1' ultima prova. Per le camere tue fanciulle e vecchi Vanno trescando, e Belzebub in mezzo, Co' mantici, e col foco, e con gli specchi.
Pàgina 79 - 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 155 - The MILLER was a stout carl for the nones, Ful bigge he was of braun, and eke of bones; That proved wel, for over all ther he came, At wrastling he wold bere away the ram. He was short shuldered brode, a thikke gnarre, Ther n'as no dore, that he n'olde heve of barre, Or breke it at a renning with his hede.
Pàgina 166 - Thow shalt, while that thou lyvest, yer by yere, The moste partye of thy tyme spende In makyng of a glorious legende...
Pàgina 123 - Blow, northern wind, Send thou me my sweeting. Blow, northern wind, blow, blow, blow...
Pàgina 158 - Certes, he Jakke Straw, and his meynee, Ne made never shoutes half so shrille, Whan that they wolden any Fleming kille, As thilke day was maad upon the fox.
Pàgina 127 - Stalworthly, with spere and schelde, And thoght to win his right, With lordes, and with knightes kene, And other doghty men bydene, That war ful frek to fight.
Pàgina 157 - And mekely receyveth my pardoun; Or elles taketh pardoun as ye wende, Al newe and fressh at every miles ende,— So that ye offren, alwey newe and newe, Nobles or pens, whiche that be goode and trewe. It is an honour to everich that is heer That ye mowe have a suffisant Pardoneer Tassoille yow in contree as ye ryde, For dventures whiche that may bityde.
Pàgina 172 - Every tree well fro his fellow grew, With branches brode, lade with leves newe, That sprongen out ayen the sunne shene. Some very red, and some a glad light grene...
Pàgina 155 - It snewed in his hous of mete and drynke, Of alle deyntees that men koude thynke. After the sondry sesons of the yeer, So chaunged he his mete and his soper. Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in muwe, And many a breem and many a luce in stuwe.