History of England: Anglo-Saxon period, Volume 1J. Murray, 1831 - 391 pages |
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acquired afterwards Alfred Alfred's amongst ancient Anglo Anglo-Saxon King appears army assembled Atheling Athelstane authority battle became Bernicia bestowed Bishop Bretwalda Britain British Britons brother Cædmon called Canute Carausius Charles the Simple chieftains chroniclers church command compelled conquest considered continued crown Cumbria Cymri Danes Danish death Deira dignity dominions Duke Duke of Normandy Dunstan Ealdorman Earl Earldom East Anglia Edgar Edmund Edred Edric Edward Edwin Edwy Egbert Emperor empire enemy England English Ethelbald Ethelbert Ethelred Ethelwulf favour forces Gaul Godwin Harfager Harold honour inhabitants invaders island Jutes Kent King of Wessex king's kingdom land language London Lord Mercia MICHIG monarch monastery nations nobles Norman Normandy Northumbria obtained Offa perhaps Picts possessed Prelates Prince reign retained Roman Rome royal Saxons Scots shore slain sovereign subjects Sweyne territory Teutonic Thanes throne tion Tostig vassal vessels warriors Wessex whilst William Witan Witenagemot
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Page 44 - Thy tower, proud Bamborough, mark'd they there, King Ida's castle, huge and square, From its tall rock look grimly down, And on the swelling ocean frown ; Then from the coast they bore away, And reach'd the Holy Island's bay.
Page 66 - Here did it enter ; there, on hasty wing, Flies out, and passes on from cold to cold ; But whence it came we know not, nor behold Whither it goes. Even such, that transient Thing, The human Soul ; not utterly unknown While in the Body lodged, her warm abode ; But from what world She came, what woe or weal On her departure waits, no tongue hath shown ; This mystery if the Stranger can reveal, His be a welcome cordially bestowed...
Page 175 - But wo have not yet produced our stores ; nay, though the greater part of the manuscripts of these versions are in the libraries of the University of Oxford, I regret to say, that they remain utterly neglected, and mouldering on their shelves.
Page 34 - Sir Francis Palgrave is of opinion that " the tribes by whom Britain was invaded appear principally to have proceeded from the country now called Friesland ; for of all the continental dialects the ancient Frisick is the one which approaches most nearly to the Anglo-Saxon of our ancestors.
Page 150 - The clericus, or clerk, was synonymous with penman; and the laity, or people who were not clerks, did not feel any urgent necessity for the use of letters. The ancient use of the cross was therefore universal, alike by those who could and those who could not write: it was, indeed, the symbol of an oath, from its sacred associations, as well as the mark generally adopted. Hence the origin of the expression "God save the mark...
Page 381 - In the Norman leaguer, far otherwise had the dread of the approaching morn affected the hearts of William's soldiery. No voice was heard excepting the solemn response of the litany and the chant of the psalm. The penitents confessed their sins — the masses were said — and the sense of the imminent peril of the morrow was tranquillized by penance and prayer.
Page 387 - ... monument of his triumph, and the token of his piety. The abbey was most richly endowed : and all the land, for one league round about, was annexed to the Battle franchise. The Abbot was freed from the authority of the Metropolitan of Canterbury, and invested with archieprscopal jurisdiction.
Page 356 - The childless owner of a large estate, at first leaves his property to his Cousin on the mother's side, from whose connexions he has received much kindness. He advances in age, and alters his intentions in favour of a Nephew on his father's side — an amiable young man, living abroad, — and from whom he had been estranged in consequence of a family quarrel of long standing. The young Heir comes to the Testator's house — is received with great affection — and is suddenly cut off by illness....
Page 382 - No voice was heard excepting the solemn response of the litany and the chant of the psalm. The penitents confessed their sins — the masses were said — and the sense of the imminent peril of the morrow was tranquillized by penance and prayer. Each of the nations, as we are told by one of our most trustworthy English historians, acted according to their "national custom"; and severe is the censure which the English thus receive.
Page 37 - Liuti, yet not so much as the price of aid to be obtained from the threatening colony, as for the purpose of warding off further hostility. Thanet is now divided from the rest of Kent by a narrow rill, crossed by an arch of the smallest span. The rill was then a channel, nearly a mile in width ; and in this isle, the Jutes, possessing the command of the sea, could well maintain themselves against their disunited enemies. Several years, however, of constant warfare elapsed before