History of English Literature, Band 1H. Holt, 1904 |
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Æsir amid amidst amongst ancient arms barbarian barbarism battle beasts beauty Beowulf blood body Boethius Cadmon Cædmon Canterbury Tales century character Charlemagne Chaucer Christianity chroniclers civilisation colour Cynegils death dreams earth Edda emotion England English eyes feel France French genius German grand Greek hand heart heaven hell Henry of Huntingdon Hist Högni human Ibid ideas imagination instincts Jötuns king ladies land Latin literature living lord manners mind monks moral nation nature night noble Norman Odin pagan passim passion philosophy pleasure poems poet poetic poetry primitive produced race refined religion Robert Wace Roman rose Saxon says seized sentiment Shakspeare side Sigurd sing Skalds song Song of Roland soul speak spirit strong sweet sword Tacitus thee things Thorpe thou thought tion translated trouvères verse warrior waves whole William of Malmesbury words wounds Ymir
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 352 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Seite 349 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their...
Seite 206 - And sikerly she was of greet desport, And ful plesaunt and amyable of port, And peyned hire to countrefete cheere Of Court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence.
Seite 396 - I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down? See, see where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ!
Seite 344 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Seite 345 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity.
Seite 396 - Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Seite 344 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Seite 412 - In the other world ? Cari. Yes, out of question. Duch. .O, that it were possible we might But hold some two days' conference with the dead ! From them I should learn somewhat, I am sure, I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad...
Seite 254 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.