The Easter Song: Being the First Epic of ChristendomTalbot Press limited, 1922 - 269 páginas |
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... Auxerre writes ( eighth century ) of " Almost all Ireland , despising the perils of the sea , passes over to our shores , with her crowds of philosophers . " desolate the heart of Jerome , 1 there were still 8 THE EASTER SONG.
... Auxerre writes ( eighth century ) of " Almost all Ireland , despising the perils of the sea , passes over to our shores , with her crowds of philosophers . " desolate the heart of Jerome , 1 there were still 8 THE EASTER SONG.
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Being the First Epic of Christendom Sedulius George Sigerson. desolate the heart of Jerome , 1 there were still schools where Sedulius could forget all transient outer strife and life , and continue whatever studies he had entered on at ...
Being the First Epic of Christendom Sedulius George Sigerson. desolate the heart of Jerome , 1 there were still schools where Sedulius could forget all transient outer strife and life , and continue whatever studies he had entered on at ...
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... heart of Ausonius . In rapid succession , the higher honours of the State were showered upon him and his kindred . His father , then nearly ninety , was made Prefect of Illyria — the functions were , of course , discharged by deputy ...
... heart of Ausonius . In rapid succession , the higher honours of the State were showered upon him and his kindred . His father , then nearly ninety , was made Prefect of Illyria — the functions were , of course , discharged by deputy ...
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... heart ! 2 Nostri medela , Nepoliane , pectoris ! Silent often , when he spoke Ulysses would have listened . Honourable , modest , frugal , eloquent , no rhetor surpassed him in style . A Cleanthes the Stoic for dialectic , having ...
... heart ! 2 Nostri medela , Nepoliane , pectoris ! Silent often , when he spoke Ulysses would have listened . Honourable , modest , frugal , eloquent , no rhetor surpassed him in style . A Cleanthes the Stoic for dialectic , having ...
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... heart for their people , a mind for the potency of ancient custom , and a memory of great traditions as well as a policy for the Roman dispenser of dignities . M. F. Fauriel clearly understood the case , as this 1 Gallia Santonico te ...
... heart for their people , a mind for the potency of ancient custom , and a memory of great traditions as well as a policy for the Roman dispenser of dignities . M. F. Fauriel clearly understood the case , as this 1 Gallia Santonico te ...
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alliteration Ambrose Amergin amongst ancient Irish Arborius Armorica assonance Augustine Ausonius Avitus bards beauty Behold Book Bordeaux Britain Briton broad vowels called celestial Celtic Celts Cesarius Christ Christian Cisalpine Gaul classic Commodian consonants couplet death delight disciples divine Druid earth Easter Song Emperor end-rimes Epic Erinn faith Father fifth century fourth century Gael Gaelic Galatia Gaul Gaulish language gives Gratian Greek heart Heaven Holy honour hymn interlaced rimes Ireland Irish metric Irish poetry Jerome King language Latin Latin language latinised learned Light Lord Macedonius masters metre Milton mind nations native noble o'er pagan Paradise Paschal passage poem poet poetry praise professor prose quatrain race rhetor Roman Rome sacred says scholar Schools Scots Sedulian Sedulius Sidonius Silvius slender speech Stilicho syllables teach thee things thou Treves Valentinian III verse Victor Virgil vowel vowel rimes waters whilst words writes
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Página 178 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view! Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Página 174 - There stand, if thou wilt stand; to stand upright Will ask thee skill. I to thy Father's house Have brought thee, and highest placed: highest is best. Now shew thy progeny; if not to stand, Cast thyself down. Safely, if Son of God; For it is written, 'He will give command Concerning thee to his Angels; in their hands They shall uplift thee, lest at any time Thou chance to dash thy foot against a stone.
Página 161 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Página 102 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Página 150 - A leper once he lost, and gained a king— Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew God's altar to disparage and displace For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn His odious offerings, and adore the gods Whom he had vanquished. After these appeared A crew who, under names of old renown— Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train— With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human.
Página 148 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Página 183 - But to nobler sights Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed, Which that false fruit, that promised clearer sight. Had bred; then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see, And from the well of life three drops instill'd.
Página 208 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the omnipotent to arms.
Página 161 - Unargued I obey: So God ordains: God is thy law, thou mine: To know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
Página 176 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.