Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon periodGale Research Company, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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Page 493 - ANALECTA ANGLO-SAXONICA.— A Selection, in Prose and Verse, from Anglo-Saxon Authors, of various ages, with a Glossary. By Benjamin Thorpe, FSA A New Edition, with corrections and improvements. Post 8vo, cloth, 8s.
Page 531 - The Saxon and English Languages reciprocally illustrative of each other ; the impracticability of acquiring an accurate knowledge of Saxon Literature through the medium of Latin Phraseology, exemplified in the errors of Hickes, Wilkins, Gibson, and other scholars ; and a new mode suggested of radically studying the Saxon and English Languages, by Samuel Henshall, MA 4to.
Page 530 - The Rudiments Of Grammar For The English-Saxon Tongue, First given in English : With An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities.
Page 195 - In the morning, he hastened to the bailiff of Whitby, who carried him before the abbess Hilda ; and there, in the presence of some of the learned men of the place, he told his story, and they were all of opinion that he had received the gift of song from heaven.
Page 536 - Kings, from jEthelbirht to Cnut, with an English Translation of the Saxon ; the Laws called Edward the Confessor's ; the Laws of William the Conqueror, and those ascribed to Henry the First ; also, Monumenta Ecclesiastica Anglicana, from the 7th to the 10th century ; and the Ancient Latin Version of the Anglo-Saxon Laws ; with a compendious Glossary,, &c.
Page 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 every description, natural or supernatural, nicors, ogres, grendels, dragons.
Page 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.
Page 75 - Good day, my son,T 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 a century old...
Page 56 - Metres of Boeth. ed Fox, p. 137. We will, however, willingly relieve the Anglo-Saxon monarch from all responsibility for this error, which seems to have arisen from the misconstruction of Alfred's words by some other person who was the author of the prosaic verses that have hitherto gone under his name. Several reasons combine in making us believe that these were not written by Alfred : they are little more than a transposition of the words of his own prose, with...