English Writers. V.1, Pts. 1-2; 2, Pt.1, Volume 11867 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abbot afterwards Alcuin Aldhelm Alfred's ancient Angles Anglo Anglo-Saxon ascribed bard battle Bede Bede's Beowulf Bishop Breca Britain Britons Bryneich Cadmon Cæsar called Cattraeth Celtic Celts century Charlemagne chief Christian Chronicle Church coast Culdees Cymry Cyndyllan Danes death declension edition Egwin England English Erin Exeter Book extant father Fionn fragment French Frisian Gael Gaelic Gaul gave German Gododin Goths Greek Grendel hall Healfdene Heorot hero honour Hrothgar Hygelac influence Irish island King Alfred labour land language Latin legend letters literature lived Llywarch London lord mind monastery monks North Ohthere Oisin Orosius Paraphrase plur poem poet poetry priest prose religious Roman Rome Sanskrit Saxon says Scripture Scyldings sing song stone story sword Taliesin tells thou thought tion tradition translation Tuatha dé Danann Urien verse warriors Wilfrid words writing written wrote
Popular passages
Page 133 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 60 - Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Page 361 - I saw with my own eyes, and heard with my own ears/'* Bede was buried first under the church porch, and afterwards within the church at Jarrow.
Page 46 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it ; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago ; and the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days.
Page 98 - As I am not at all disposed to be either so indulgent, or so correspondent, as they desire, I have but one bad way left to escape the honour they would inflict upon me ; and therefore am obliged to desire you would make Dodsley print it immediately (which may be done in less than a week's time) from your copy, but without my name...
Page 58 - I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.
Page 105 - Confusion infinite of heaven and earth, Dazzling the soul. Meanwhile, prophetic harps In every grove were ringing, War shall cease ; Did ye not hear that conquest is abjured ? Bring garlands, bring forth choicest flowers, to deck The tree of Liberty.
Page 65 - ... the art of distinguishing between words and things, and of ranging his thoughts and setting them in proper lights, whatever notions he may have, will lose himself in confusion and obscurity. I might further observe that there is not a Greek or Latin critic, who has not shown, even in the style of his criticisms, that he was a master of all the elegance and delicacy of his native tongue.
Page 105 - The crash it made in falling ! From the wreck A golden palace rose, or seemed to rise, The appointed seat of equitable law And mild paternal sway. The potent shock I felt : the transformation I perceived, As marvellously seized as in that moment When, from the blind mist issuing, I beheld Glory — beyond all glory ever seen, Confusion infinite of heaven and earth, Dazzling the soul.
Page 60 - I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play, but having so lately read " The Adventures of Five Hours,