Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon HistoryJohn Chapman, 1854 - 198 страница |
Садржај
| 1 | |
| 3 | |
| 5 | |
| 7 | |
| 9 | |
| 11 | |
| 13 | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | |
| 21 | |
| 23 | |
| 27 | |
| 29 | |
| 31 | |
| 33 | |
| 37 | |
| 39 | |
| 41 | |
| 43 | |
| 46 | |
| 49 | |
| 51 | |
| 53 | |
| 55 | |
| 57 | |
| 59 | |
| 61 | |
| 63 | |
| 65 | |
| 67 | |
| 69 | |
| 71 | |
| 73 | |
| 75 | |
| 77 | |
| 79 | |
| 81 | |
| 99 | |
| 105 | |
| 111 | |
| 117 | |
| 127 | |
| 133 | |
| 145 | |
| 157 | |
| 159 | |
| 161 | |
| 163 | |
| 165 | |
| 167 | |
| 169 | |
| 171 | |
| 173 | |
| 175 | |
| 177 | |
| 179 | |
| 181 | |
| 183 | |
| 185 | |
| 187 | |
| 189 | |
| 191 | |
| 193 | |
| 195 | |
| 197 | |
| 198 | |
Друга издања - Прикажи све
Чести термини и фразе
Abbey Abbey of Croyland abbot Alfred amid Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Athelney Athelstan beauty Bede beneath brother brow CAEDMON called Canute cell Cenred of Mercia child Christian church cloister crime crown Croyland Danes Danish dark death deed Denulf died dreams Dunstan e'en ealdorman earth Edward Edwin Edwy Egbert ETHELBERGA ETHELFLEDA ETHELGIVA Ethelred Ethelred the Unready Ethelwulph eyes faith father fear fled flower forest gloom Godwin grave Harold Hastings hath King King of Wessex land light live lone look Mercia mind monastery monk monkish nature Nature's night noble NORTHMEN Northumbria NORTHUMBRIA.-I o'er ocean Offa of Essex passed past peace pile priest princes reign Roman Rome rude Saxon Chronicle Saxon story Saxons in England serf shore shrine silent sing soul spirit stern strange strife tears thane thee things thou thought throne thy name toil tomb tread trod truth Turner's History Venerable Bede voice wander wild Witena words
Популарни одломци
Страница 24 - I; for who can more properly than myself destroy those things which I worshipped through ignorance, for an example to all others, through the wisdom which has been given me by the true God?
Страница 116 - Lastly, in the same year, king Alfred departed out of this world, that immoveable pillar of the Western Saxons, that man full of justice, bold in arms, learned in speech, and, above all other things, imbued with the divine instructions. For he had translated into his own language, out of Latin, unnumbered volumes, of so varied a nature, and so excellently, that the sorrowful book of Boethius seemed, not only to the learned, but even to those who heard it read, as it were, brought...
Страница 46 - It is well ; you have said the truth. It is ended. Receive my head into your hands, for it is a great satisfaction to me to sit facing my holy place, where I was wont to pray, that I may also sitting call upon my Father.' And thus on the pavement of his little cell, singing, ' Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,' when he had named the Holy Ghost, he breathed his last, and so departed to the heavenly kingdom.
Страница 50 - This year the army rode across Mercia into EastAnglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford ; and the same winter king Eadmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory, and slew the king, and subdued all the land, 'and destroyed all the minsters which they came to. "The names of their chiefs who slew the king were Ingwair and Ubba.
Страница 100 - West-Saxons, with a few of his nobles, and certain soldiers and vassals, used to lead an unquiet life among the woodlands* of the county of Somerset, in great tribulation; for he had none of the necessaries of life, except what he could forage openly or stealthily, by frequent sallies, from the pagans, or even from the Christians who had submitted to the rule of the pagans, and as we read in the Life of St. Neot, at the house of one of his cowherds.
Страница 50 - At that same time they came to Medeshamstede (Peterborough), and burned and beat it down, slew abbot and monks, and all that they found there ; and that place, which before was full rich, they reduced to nothing".
Страница 166 - Stigand succeeds to the archbishopric. AD 1053. " Hris [Rhys], the Welsh king's brother, was slain, because he had done harm ; and his head was brought to Gloucester on Twelfth-day eve." " In this year was the king at Winchester at Easter, and Godwin the earl with him, and Harold the earl his son, and Tostig. Then on the second day of Easter...
Страница 28 - Your words and promises are very fair, but as they are new to us, and of uncertain import, I cannot approve of them so far as to forsake that which I have so long followed with the whole English nation.
Страница 184 - England such a sign in the heavens as no man ever before saw. Some men said that it was the star Cometa, which some men called the haired star ; and it first appeared on the eve of Litania major, the eighteenth before the Kal. of May (April 24th), and so shone all the seven nights.
Страница 98 - He was loved by his father and mother, and even by all the people, above all his brothers, and was educated altogether at the court of the king. As he advanced through the years of infancy and youth, his form appeared more comely than that of his brothers; in look, in speech, and in manners he was more graceful than they. His noble nature implanted in him from his cradle a love of wisdom above all things...