 | Henry Sweet - 1876 - 680 pages
...clearly belongs to the culminating point of the Old Northumbrian literature, combining, as it does, the highest dramatic and constructive power with the utmost brilliance of language and metre. The text has been revised with the MS., which was slightly damaged in the great Cottonian fire. We... | |
 | Henry Sweet - 1876 - 434 pages
...clearly belongs to the culminating point of the Old Northumbrian literature, combining, as it does, the highest dramatic and constructive power with the utmost brilliance of language and metre. The text has been revised with the MS., which was slightly damaged in the great Cottonian fire. We... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1888 - 170 pages
...clearly belongs to the culminating point of the Old Northumbrian literature, combining, as it does, the highest dramatic and constructive power with the utmost brilliance of language and metre. [SWEET, Anglo-Saxon Reader, 4th ed. p. 157.] Dieses stellt einen grossartigen Heldengesang dar, bilderreich... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett, Cynewulf - 1889 - 104 pages
...it as belonging " to the culminating point of the Old Northumbrian literature, combining as it does the highest dramatic and constructive power with the utmost brilliance of language and metre." III. The ATHELSTAN, or Fight at Brunanburh, is found in four manuscripts of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1902 - 230 pages
...apparently only a fragment, one scarcely misses the part which is lost. According to Sweet, it combines the ' highest dramatic and constructive power with the utmost brilliance of language and metre.' i. THE FEAST She doubted not the glorious Maker's gifts In this wide earth ; from the great Lord to... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1908 - 502 pages
...has described as "one of I he noblest poems in the whole range of Old English literature, combining the highest dramatic and constructive power with the utmost brilliance of language and metre." Very attractive, too, are the passages quoted from the tragedy oí Judith of Bclhulia by the late Mr.... | |
 | Prosser Hall Frye - 1922 - 374 pages
...rate them in inappropriate and misleading terms. So when Dr. Sweet declares that Judith " combines the ' highest dramatic and constructive power with the utmost brilliance of language and metre '," he is obviously using a fabulous terminology which leaves nothing to be said for a Shakespeare... | |
 | Percy Goronwy Thomas - 1924 - 172 pages
...lines occur frequently, and serve to enhance the dignity of the poem. In Sweet's words, Judith shows a combination of " the highest dramatic and constructive...with the utmost brilliance of language and metre." 1he_.Battle o£ Maldon was probably composed soon after 991, the year ~oT"Byrhtnod's struggle with... | |
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It clearly belongs to the culminating point of the Old Northumbrian literature, combining, as it does, the highest dramatic and constructive power with the utmost brilliance of language and metre. 