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... King Arthur , who with his gallant knights defeated the Saxon invaders in twelve battles . We shall learn presently what influence this British literature has had upon our English literature . 8. Origin of the English Language . Our ...
... King Arthur , who with his gallant knights defeated the Saxon invaders in twelve battles . We shall learn presently what influence this British literature has had upon our English literature . 8. Origin of the English Language . Our ...
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... king of the Danes , builds a castle near the sea . A monster , called Grendel . half man and half fiend , lives in the marsh near the sea . Often , at night , Grendel comes to Hrothgar's castle , enters the hall where the thanes lie ...
... king of the Danes , builds a castle near the sea . A monster , called Grendel . half man and half fiend , lives in the marsh near the sea . Often , at night , Grendel comes to Hrothgar's castle , enters the hall where the thanes lie ...
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... King's best friend . The heroic Beowulf offers to fight the she - monster also . Going by night to her den , he attacks and slays her . After receiving the thanks of Hrothgar and his people , Beowulf returns to his own land , and rules ...
... King's best friend . The heroic Beowulf offers to fight the she - monster also . Going by night to her den , he attacks and slays her . After receiving the thanks of Hrothgar and his people , Beowulf returns to his own land , and rules ...
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... King Alfred's time , nearly one hun- dred years later . Another successor of Caedmon was Cynewulf , a minstrel at the court of one of the Northum- brian kings . His first poems were written , he says , when he was a frivolous and sinful ...
... King Alfred's time , nearly one hun- dred years later . Another successor of Caedmon was Cynewulf , a minstrel at the court of one of the Northum- brian kings . His first poems were written , he says , when he was a frivolous and sinful ...
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... king Athelstan and Anlaf the Dane . " Here Athelstan , king of earls the lord , and his broth- er Edmund , the atheling , a lasting glory won by slaughter in battle with the edges of swords . The wall of shields they cleaved , they ...
... king Athelstan and Anlaf the Dane . " Here Athelstan , king of earls the lord , and his broth- er Edmund , the atheling , a lasting glory won by slaughter in battle with the edges of swords . The wall of shields they cleaved , they ...
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Page 66 - AND is there care in heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 82 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Page 84 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 83 - ... tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Page 82 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon.
Page 155 - On Linden, when the sun was low All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly.
Page 124 - And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind!
Page 124 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Page 83 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Page 82 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.