The Easter Song: Being the First Epic of ChristendomTalbot Press limited, 1922 - 269 páginas |
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... whilst St. Jerome's work reached Erinn , none of the elder classics entered there , though taught in the schools of Britain and of Gaul . Our traditional habit of looking at ancient Europe 1 They are more than confirmed by the numerous ...
... whilst St. Jerome's work reached Erinn , none of the elder classics entered there , though taught in the schools of Britain and of Gaul . Our traditional habit of looking at ancient Europe 1 They are more than confirmed by the numerous ...
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... whilst they practised the mysteries of their belief among a faithful people , for whom the grosser polytheism of Rome had no mystic charm . Now , Arborius , one of the sons of this Druid , be- came an eminent scholar , a rhetor , a ...
... whilst they practised the mysteries of their belief among a faithful people , for whom the grosser polytheism of Rome had no mystic charm . Now , Arborius , one of the sons of this Druid , be- came an eminent scholar , a rhetor , a ...
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... whilst other later critics mocked Cicero's verse , as if it came from a blundering school- boy ; and yet Cicero was a very distinguished poet , as Professor Tyrrell has justly declared . These are the lines referred to : cedant arma ...
... whilst other later critics mocked Cicero's verse , as if it came from a blundering school- boy ; and yet Cicero was a very distinguished poet , as Professor Tyrrell has justly declared . These are the lines referred to : cedant arma ...
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... whilst the Irish , the Caledonians , and the Welsh retained their speech , under much severer strain , until the present time , the kindred Gaul should so rapidly forget it ? Official and fashionable society , and place - seekers ...
... whilst the Irish , the Caledonians , and the Welsh retained their speech , under much severer strain , until the present time , the kindred Gaul should so rapidly forget it ? Official and fashionable society , and place - seekers ...
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... noble Gallo - Roman was born at Lyons in 431 , his father and grandfather had been Prefects of the Praetorium of the Gauls , whilst he himself became chief of the Senate , Prefect of Rome , and a Patrician . He married INTRODUCTION 43.
... noble Gallo - Roman was born at Lyons in 431 , his father and grandfather had been Prefects of the Praetorium of the Gauls , whilst he himself became chief of the Senate , Prefect of Rome , and a Patrician . He married INTRODUCTION 43.
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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.