An Essay on the State of Literature and Learning Under the Anglo-Saxons: Introductory to the First Section of the Biographia Britannica Literaria of the Royal Society of LiteratureC. Knight, 1839 - 112 Seiten |
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Alcuin Aldhelm Alfred's Alfric alliteration ancient Anglo Anglo-Latin Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon language Anglo-Saxon literature Anglo-Saxon manuscripts Anglo-Saxon poetry Anglo-Saxon scholars Asser Bede Beowulf bishop Boethius Boniface bonne British Museum Cædmon character chiefly Christianity Chronicle church Cotton dialogues diseases doctrine drenc Dunstan ealle earlier early earth edition eighth century England English eorðan Exeter Manuscript forefathers foreign fragments frequently glossed grammar Greek Heorot Homer hyre King Alfred later period latter learning Library literary literature metres metrical minstrel monks ninth numerous ofer Orosius Plegmund poem poet popular preserved printed Priscian prose quæ quotes romance Rutebeuf Saxon Sedulius seems sometimes song tenth century thirteenth century Thorpe's tion tongue tract translated treatise twelfth century vernacular verse Virgil wæs warriors weard William of Malmsbury words written þære þæt þam
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Seite 12 - Their subjects were either exclusively mythological, or historical facts, which, in their passage by tradition from age to age, had taken a mythic form. Beowulf himself is, probably, little more than a fabulous personage — another Hercules destroying monsters of * Plato Comicus, ap.
Seite 8 - Its chief and universal characteristic was a very regular allittration, so arranged that, in every couplet, there should be two principal words in the first line beginning with the same letter, which letter must also be the initial of the first word on which the stress of the voice falls in the second line.
Seite 75 - Good day, my son !' says he, ' may you live as long as you have lived, and as much more, and thrice as much as all this, and if God give you one year in addition to the others, you will be just a century old :'— what was the lad's age?
Seite 32 - The cultivation of letters was in that age by no means confined to the robuster sex — the Anglo-Saxon ladies applied themselves to study with equal zeal, and almost equal success. It was for their reading chiefly that Aldhelm wrote his book De Laude Virginitatis. The female correspondents of Boniface wrote in Latin with as much ease as the ladies of the present day write in French, and their letters often show much elegant and courtly feeling.
Seite 32 - The Anglo-Saxons approached the intellectual field which was thus laid open to them with extraordinary avidity. They were like the adventurous traveller who has just landed on a newly discovered shore : the very obstacles which at first stood in their way, seemed to have been placed there only to stimulate their zeal. They thus soon gained a march in advance even of their teachers, and the same age in which learning had been introduced amongst them, saw it reflected back with double lustre on those...
Seite 2 - ... edition, and appending an immense quantity of elaborate and controversial notes, after the manner, but destitute of the critical acumen, of Bayle. A Dictionary of General Biography was soon afterwards compiled and edited by Drs. Aikin and Enfield, without, however, establishing any claim to distinction in the literary world.* Another mode of improving on the crude and desultory character of all existing large works in general biography, would be by a classification of the lives according to the...
Seite 104 - Take thriftgrass, betony, penny-grass, carrue, fane, fennell, christmaswort, and borage, and make them into a potion with clear ale, sing seven masses over the plants daily, add holy water, and drop the draught into every drink that he shall drink afterwards, and sing the Psalm Beati immaculati, and Exsurgat, and Salvum me fac Deus, and then let him drink the draught out of the church bell, and, after he has drunk it, let the mass-priest sing over him "Domini sancti pater...
Seite 4 - O king, when the fire blazed, and the hall was warm, and thou wast seated at the feast amidst thy nobles, whilst the winter storm raged without, and the snow fell, how some solitary sparrow has flown through, scarcely entered at one door before it disappeared at the other Whilst it is in the hall it feels not the storm, but, after the space of a moment, it returns to whence it came, and thou beholdest it no longer, nor knowest where, nor to what it may be exposed.
Seite 92 - Sighelm not only reached in safety this distant land, but he brought back with him many of its productions, and particularly some gems and relics which were still preserved in his church in the time of William of Malmsbury.* The present day cannot furnish a more intelligent account of a voyage of discovery, than that taken down by Alfred from the mouths of Ohthere and Wulfstan, one of whom had sailed to the North Cape, and the other along the northern shores of the Baltic, and which that monarch...