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... Old English poetry . For though the principles of the alliterative verse of the later school are still funda- mentally the same as in Old English poetry , the differences in the employment of the various types of line and in the general ...
... Old English poetry . For though the principles of the alliterative verse of the later school are still funda- mentally the same as in Old English poetry , the differences in the employment of the various types of line and in the general ...
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... Old French version of Jean de Bourgoyne's ( Mandeville's ) famous work , was con- clusively proved by C. F. Brown in 1904.1 But the influence of Mandeville's book is to be found in other passages than this account of the marvels of the ...
... Old French version of Jean de Bourgoyne's ( Mandeville's ) famous work , was con- clusively proved by C. F. Brown in 1904.1 But the influence of Mandeville's book is to be found in other passages than this account of the marvels of the ...
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... Old English poets were the masters of the Gawain - poet in literary art . The sea - pictures of Old English poetry , especially those of the Old English Exodus , it has been said , have influenced the description of the storm in Purity ...
... Old English poets were the masters of the Gawain - poet in literary art . The sea - pictures of Old English poetry , especially those of the Old English Exodus , it has been said , have influenced the description of the storm in Purity ...
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... English alliterative school is probably , as we have seen , not a learned revival of Old English alliterative poetry , but simply the continuation of a tradition of which the intermediate stages have been lost . In any case , it is ...
... English alliterative school is probably , as we have seen , not a learned revival of Old English alliterative poetry , but simply the continuation of a tradition of which the intermediate stages have been lost . In any case , it is ...
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Old English poetry forms the basis for that used by the Middle English writers . But though the essential prin- ciples are the same , Middle English alliterative verse differs strikingly from Old English in several respects . The most ...
Old English poetry forms the basis for that used by the Middle English writers . But though the essential prin- ciples are the same , Middle English alliterative verse differs strikingly from Old English in several respects . The most ...
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absol Alex alliteration alliterative alliterative verse autem Baltazar Bateson Ben Jonson Biblical bope bylyve clene conj dayez dere Destr Dryztyn ejus emendation Engl Etym fader fayre Gawain Gawain-poet Glossary Gollancz hade hatz hert heven hezed hyze imper intr Introd kynde kyng kyth Lorde lyfte lyke meaning Middle English mony my3t never noun Old English oþer paraphrased passage Patience Pearl Ph.D phrase Piers Plowman poems poet poet's prep pres pret pron prop Publ Purity quae quod refl ryche schal schulde scribe Segor sete Skeat subj sunt super terram superl translation verb Vulg Vulgate watz wern word wrozt wylde wyrke wyse wyth wythinne wyze Þat watz þat þe þay þaz Þen Þenne þer þis þou þyn þyse
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Page 76 - Quomodo cecidisti de caelo lucifer, qui mane oriebaris? Corruisti in terram, qui vulnerabas gentes, qui dicebas in corde tuo: In caelum conscendam, super astra Dei exaltabo solium meum, sedebo in monte testamenti in lateribus aquilonis; ascendam super altitudinem nubium, similis ero Altissimo.
Page 115 - O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, a kingdom and majesty and glory and honour; and for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations and languages trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive, and whom he would he set up, and whom he would he put down.
Page 232 - XXII. King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, turned into Modern English. HENRY LEE HARGROVE, Ph.D. $0.75.
Page 96 - And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together : for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
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Page 89 - These lines repeat the idea of 519-20, and partly reflect Gen. 9. 11 : 'Statuam pactum meum vobiscum, et nequaquam ultra interficietur omnis caro aquis diluvii, neque erit deinceps diluvium dissipans terram.' 569-70. 'This promise (that God would never again destroy all flesh) never escaped him, ie he never forgot, because of any wickedness (however great). Nevertheless he did take terrible vengeance on wicked men afterwards.
Page 232 - XXIX. The Devil is an Ass, by Ben Jonson, edited with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. WILLIAM SAVAGE JOHNSON, Ph.D.
Page 223 - Cumque elevasset oculos, apparuerunt ei tres viri stantes prope eum ; quos cum vidisset, cucurrit in occursum eorum de ostio tabernaculi, et adoravit in terram.
Page iii - A portion of the expense of printing this thesis has been borne by the Modern Language Club of Yale University from funds placed at its disposal by the generosity of Mr. George E. Dimock, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1874.
Page 231 - XV. Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry by Plutarch and Basil the Great, translated from the Greek, with an Introduction. FREDERICK M.