Collected Essays, Band 2Macmillan, 1925 |
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... Norwegian , Icelandic , and Faroese- have preserved more than the English , and much more than the German , of their original character as dancing songs . Though the dancing custom has long died out in Denmark , hardly any of the ...
... Norwegian , Icelandic , and Faroese- have preserved more than the English , and much more than the German , of their original character as dancing songs . Though the dancing custom has long died out in Denmark , hardly any of the ...
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... Norwegian adaptations — a sign of changing manners . These were in prose , but besides these the Icelandic quotations above referred to show how French tunes and French rhymes were taking the place of the old narrative blank verse ...
... Norwegian adaptations — a sign of changing manners . These were in prose , but besides these the Icelandic quotations above referred to show how French tunes and French rhymes were taking the place of the old narrative blank verse ...
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... at stake , and watch the temper of the average Norwegian man who did not care for politics . He had tags of poetry in his mind ; at another time he quotes one of the old poems of Sigurd . There 98 II ON THE DANISH BALLADS .
... at stake , and watch the temper of the average Norwegian man who did not care for politics . He had tags of poetry in his mind ; at another time he quotes one of the old poems of Sigurd . There 98 II ON THE DANISH BALLADS .
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... Norwegian , Danish 2 — is able to determine certain rhymes in the old Danish language as the originals from which the various dialects have chosen their own peculiar forms ; these dialects often wresting the sense when the sounds fail ...
... Norwegian , Danish 2 — is able to determine certain rhymes in the old Danish language as the originals from which the various dialects have chosen their own peculiar forms ; these dialects often wresting the sense when the sounds fail ...
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... Norwegian version has other names in it , and they are historical , though slightly damaged . The bridegroom is Torstein Davidson , the hero is Falkvord Lommannson - so in Thelemark ; and a Swedish ballad has Falken Albrektsson in the ...
... Norwegian version has other names in it , and they are historical , though slightly damaged . The bridegroom is Torstein Davidson , the hero is Falkvord Lommannson - so in Thelemark ; and a Swedish ballad has Falken Albrektsson in the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract Adam of Bremen adventures Althing beauty better Bishop called Cardenio century Cervantes character chivalry Church classical Dadi Danish ballads Dante death Denmark Don Quixote drama Elder Edda England English epic fashion France freedom French German Gizur Greek Gudmund Harald Fairhair Hegel Heimskringla hero heroic historian Hólar honour human Iceland ideal ideas imagination Ingimund interest island Jacob Grimm Jón Arason Leesome Brand literary literature lives lyrical medieval Middle Ages mind modern moral Morkinskinna narrative nature never Northern Norway Norwegian objective world Ohthere Olaf Olaf Tryggvason ordinary particular philosophy of art poems poetical poetry poets political progress prose refrain rhyme romance Saga sail Scotland Shakespeare Skalholt Snorri song sort Spain Spanish speak story Sturla Sturlunga Sturlunga Saga Svein Sverre thair things thou thought told tradition true unity verse
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 340 - And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Seite 291 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Seite 277 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Seite 274 - He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the Scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer...
Seite 290 - While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destin'd 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 277 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Seite 311 - ... a commonplace book full of monstrosities, strings them into an epic. Mr Wordsworth picks up village legends from old women and sextons; and Mr Coleridge, to the valuable information acquired from similar sources, superadds the dreams of crazy theologians and the mysticisms of German metaphysics, and favours the world with visions in verse, in which the quadruple elements of sexton, old woman, Jeremy Taylor, and Emanuel Kant are harmonized into a delicious poetical compound.
Seite 311 - Dancing round them the spectres are seen : Their liquor is blood, and this horrible stave They howl : — " To the health of Alonzo the Brave, And his consort the Fair Imogine...
Seite 79 - It's whether will ye be a rank robber's wife, Or will ye die by my wee pen-knife ? ' ' It's I'll not be a rank robber's wife, But I'll rather die by your wee pen-knife.
Seite 303 - WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion : then were we like unto them that dream.