The Epic of the Fall of Man: A Comparative Study of Caedmon, Dante and MiltonG. P. Putnam's sons, 1896 - 449 páginas |
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... original manuscript , preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford . The reduced fac - similes of the illuminations of the manuscript are taken from the fac - similes published in the Archæologia of the Society of Antiquaries of London ...
... original manuscript , preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford . The reduced fac - similes of the illuminations of the manuscript are taken from the fac - similes published in the Archæologia of the Society of Antiquaries of London ...
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... original , and , in so far as possible , to keep to Anglo - Saxon modes of thought and of ex- pression . In passages where the text itself is evi- dently corrupt , or where the wording or meaning is doubtful , I have endeavoured to ...
... original , and , in so far as possible , to keep to Anglo - Saxon modes of thought and of ex- pression . In passages where the text itself is evi- dently corrupt , or where the wording or meaning is doubtful , I have endeavoured to ...
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... original , for the purposes of their profession , such works as the Saxon Chronicle , Elfric's homilies , or the Anglo- Saxon laws in Wilkins ' digest , which , in a greater or less degree , are of a purely technical or professional ...
... original , for the purposes of their profession , such works as the Saxon Chronicle , Elfric's homilies , or the Anglo- Saxon laws in Wilkins ' digest , which , in a greater or less degree , are of a purely technical or professional ...
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... originals . And yet , in one respect , we deem it worthy of far higher honour than its predecessors . At a time when the majority of scholars slighted their mother tongue in favour of a corrupt Latin , Elizabeth Elstob , though herself ...
... originals . And yet , in one respect , we deem it worthy of far higher honour than its predecessors . At a time when the majority of scholars slighted their mother tongue in favour of a corrupt Latin , Elizabeth Elstob , though herself ...
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... original , appeared in 1722 , edited by John Smith , Canon of Durham . The Latin text of this edition is based upon that of the Jesuit Chifflet , but it is superior in every respect to any that had hitherto appeared . This by the way ...
... original , appeared in 1722 , edited by John Smith , Canon of Durham . The Latin text of this edition is based upon that of the Jesuit Chifflet , but it is superior in every respect to any that had hitherto appeared . This by the way ...
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Abyss Adam Almighty Anglo Anglo-Saxon literature Anglo-Saxon poem Archangel aught Beatific Vision beauteous Beda Beda's beneath Beowulf bliss bright Cadmon celestial Chaos Circle command concave creation Dante Dante's dark deeds deep deepest Deity didst dire Divina Commedia divine doom dread dwell e'en Earth Elizabeth Elstob Empyrean England English erelong eternal evil eyes Fall fell Fiend fierce fire flames Fréa fruit gates gleeman God's Grendel hand hast hate hath heart Heaven Heavenly Hell Hell's holy Hróthgár Inferno King length light literature Lord Lucifer manuscript Mead-hall messenger mighty Milton Milton's epic mind monastery narrative Night o'er opening Paradise Lost pass passage poet poetic pride punishment realm rebel Angels rebel host ruin Satan Saxon Serpent shalt side sorrow soul sovereign spake Sphere spirits Starry Universe stars stood tells thane thee thou thought throne tion Tree of Death verse warriors words World
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Página 300 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Página 269 - Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LOHD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Página 156 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Página 156 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, 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.
Página 294 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Página 295 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...
Página 299 - O, then, at last relent: Is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but by submission ; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame...
Página 380 - The hell within him ; for within him hell He brings, and round about him, nor from hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly, By change of place ; now conscience wakes despair.
Página 234 - Ye have the account Of my performance ; what remains, ye Gods, But up and enter now into full bliss?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout and high applause To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears, On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.
Página 203 - Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy', and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams...