The Easter Song: Being the First Epic of ChristendomTalbot Press limited, 1922 - 269 páginas |
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... passed from Erinn to Alba , settled there and brought part of it under the sceptre of Cormac― the first Christian Irish king . Alba became " Scotia minor . " There were Picts and Scots in both countries so that , though sea - divided ...
... passed from Erinn to Alba , settled there and brought part of it under the sceptre of Cormac― the first Christian Irish king . Alba became " Scotia minor . " There were Picts and Scots in both countries so that , though sea - divided ...
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... passed into cloud - shadows when the pure dawn of Christianity came upon his mind with serene radiance , showing ideals of infinite beauty . 1 It is too much ignored that the " barbarian hordes " had also their laws , organisations ...
... passed into cloud - shadows when the pure dawn of Christianity came upon his mind with serene radiance , showing ideals of infinite beauty . 1 It is too much ignored that the " barbarian hordes " had also their laws , organisations ...
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... passed with certainty , if slowly , along the great highways of the Empire , and when Roman roads ceased , as in Britain , there were sea- boats which led to the state - controlled roads of Ireland . Our vessels were familiar with ...
... passed with certainty , if slowly , along the great highways of the Empire , and when Roman roads ceased , as in Britain , there were sea- boats which led to the state - controlled roads of Ireland . Our vessels were familiar with ...
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... passed through school with honour , became a teacher of grammar , then a rhetor and next a professor . For thirty years he held the chair , with increasing credit . Then the Emperor Valentinian I. , aware of his great reputation ...
... passed through school with honour , became a teacher of grammar , then a rhetor and next a professor . For thirty years he held the chair , with increasing credit . Then the Emperor Valentinian I. , aware of his great reputation ...
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... passed over because it was provoked by criticism . Prosper of Aqui- taine , praised by Beda , had not the same excuse for stigmatising as a viper , some time later , a man whom St. Augustine ( his great but just adversary ) had declared ...
... passed over because it was provoked by criticism . Prosper of Aqui- taine , praised by Beda , had not the same excuse for stigmatising as a viper , some time later , a man whom St. Augustine ( his great but just adversary ) had declared ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.