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... Northumbria , and thus indirectly contributed to the growth of a Christian literature in that kingdom , but they infused no recognisable Celtic spirit into it . England ( a term used here for convenience sake , but , when not obviously ...
... Northumbria , and thus indirectly contributed to the growth of a Christian literature in that kingdom , but they infused no recognisable Celtic spirit into it . England ( a term used here for convenience sake , but , when not obviously ...
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... Northumbria . Ten Brink , however , declares the dialect to be Wessex of the best period of the language . But this ... Northumbrian origin of the writer , may afford a clue to the history of the poem . Offa the Great , King of Mercia ...
... Northumbria . Ten Brink , however , declares the dialect to be Wessex of the best period of the language . But this ... Northumbrian origin of the writer , may afford a clue to the history of the poem . Offa the Great , King of Mercia ...
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... Northumbria . The fact - wheresoever Beowulf may have been written - seems indubitable . Of the two representative poets of whom we are now to treat , Caedmon was certainly Northumbrian , and although there is no direct evidence as ...
... Northumbria . The fact - wheresoever Beowulf may have been written - seems indubitable . Of the two representative poets of whom we are now to treat , Caedmon was certainly Northumbrian , and although there is no direct evidence as ...
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... Northumbria in 634 on the invitation of King Oswald , and it was not until 664 that they finally retreated . Under these circumstances , it is comprehensible that Anglo - Saxon literature might grow up in Northumbria while it was ...
... Northumbria in 634 on the invitation of King Oswald , and it was not until 664 that they finally retreated . Under these circumstances , it is comprehensible that Anglo - Saxon literature might grow up in Northumbria while it was ...
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... Northumbria . As already observed , the existence of his poems as we now have them in the Wessex dialect is no objection to the latter supposition , since the transcriber invariably employed his own form of speech . It is a striking ...
... Northumbria . As already observed , the existence of his poems as we now have them in the Wessex dialect is no objection to the latter supposition , since the transcriber invariably employed his own form of speech . It is a striking ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.