A manual of English literatureLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1877 - 423 Seiten |
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... king named Offa ; that this king , with the help of the Myrgings ( apparently a tribe bearing kindred to the Angles , the poet himself was a Myrging , see 1. 87 ) , enlarged his borders after the battle of Fifel - dór ( a name for the ...
... king named Offa ; that this king , with the help of the Myrgings ( apparently a tribe bearing kindred to the Angles , the poet himself was a Myrging , see 1. 87 ) , enlarged his borders after the battle of Fifel - dór ( a name for the ...
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... King of the Goths endowed me with good things : He - chief of the burgh - dwellers - gave me a ring ; ' For it were cut off six hundred shots [ i.e. pieces ] 1 The ring of metal , large or small , was a customary form of present among ...
... King of the Goths endowed me with good things : He - chief of the burgh - dwellers - gave me a ring ; ' For it were cut off six hundred shots [ i.e. pieces ] 1 The ring of metal , large or small , was a customary form of present among ...
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... king of Denmark , and killed many noble Danes ; secondly , the fight of the same hero with Grendel's mother , whom he kills ; thirdly , the deadly conflict between Beowulf , now an old man , and king both of Denmark and Gautland , and a ...
... king of Denmark , and killed many noble Danes ; secondly , the fight of the same hero with Grendel's mother , whom he kills ; thirdly , the deadly conflict between Beowulf , now an old man , and king both of Denmark and Gautland , and a ...
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... king of the Geatas to Friesland , where he was slain by the Franks . This expedition has been satisfactorily identified with a marauding raid , described by the chronicler Gregory of Tours under the year 511 , in which a king ...
... king of the Geatas to Friesland , where he was slain by the Franks . This expedition has been satisfactorily identified with a marauding raid , described by the chronicler Gregory of Tours under the year 511 , in which a king ...
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... king- dom ; besides a great many others on the loving - kindnesses and judgments of God ; and in all his compositions he strove to wean men from the love of vice , and stimulate them to the love and right understanding of virtue . ' 14 ...
... king- dom ; besides a great many others on the loving - kindnesses and judgments of God ; and in all his compositions he strove to wean men from the love of vice , and stimulate them to the love and right understanding of virtue . ' 14 ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 469 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 280 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Seite 371 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Seite 393 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Seite 230 - Advanced, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, thou Star of Poets, and with rage, Or influence, chide, or cheer the drooping stage Which since thy flight from hence hath mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light!
Seite 247 - With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...
Seite 400 - A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Seite 408 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Seite 188 - By William Shakespeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.
Seite 361 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...