Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volumen1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 |
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... LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ELFRED . JOHN WYCLIF BEDA THE BIBLE ELFRED ... NICHOLAS HEREFORD POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST JOHN PURVEY ... BRUNANBURH JOHN CAPGRAVE ' THE FIGHT AT MALDON ' SIR JOHN FORTESCUE PROSE FROM ELFRED TO THE ...
... LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ELFRED . JOHN WYCLIF BEDA THE BIBLE ELFRED ... NICHOLAS HEREFORD POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST JOHN PURVEY ... BRUNANBURH JOHN CAPGRAVE ' THE FIGHT AT MALDON ' SIR JOHN FORTESCUE PROSE FROM ELFRED TO THE ...
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... Latin forms of learning and religion began to make their way from Ripon , from Wearmouth , from Hexham and Jarrow . The Celtic and the Latin influences mingled . Meanwhile the Irish impulse penetrated into Mercia and East Anglia from ...
... Latin forms of learning and religion began to make their way from Ripon , from Wearmouth , from Hexham and Jarrow . The Celtic and the Latin influences mingled . Meanwhile the Irish impulse penetrated into Mercia and East Anglia from ...
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... Latin book , De Excidio , describes the horrors of the first years of the English invasion , and whose Epistola , addressed to the kings and priests of the Britons , is a fierce and probably an exaggerated indictment of their rule and ...
... Latin book , De Excidio , describes the horrors of the first years of the English invasion , and whose Epistola , addressed to the kings and priests of the Britons , is a fierce and probably an exaggerated indictment of their rule and ...
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... Latin ; these are in English verse , with the exception of the eighty - sixth , which is in Latin . As the name Lupus is in it , it is supposed that Cynewulf thus recorded his name . When we meet Cynewulf again he is all changed . He ...
... Latin ; these are in English verse , with the exception of the eighty - sixth , which is in Latin . As the name Lupus is in it , it is supposed that Cynewulf thus recorded his name . When we meet Cynewulf again he is all changed . He ...
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... Latin Writers before Ælfred . When Augustine landed in Thanet in 597 and made Canterbury the first Christian town , he brought with him , to add to the development of English literature , the power , the wisdom , the amal- gamating ...
... Latin Writers before Ælfred . When Augustine landed in Thanet in 597 and made Canterbury the first Christian town , he brought with him , to add to the development of English literature , the power , the wisdom , the amal- gamating ...
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volumen1 Robert Chambers Vista de fragmentos - 1922 |
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...