Alfred the West Saxon: King of EnglishJ. M. Dent & Company, 1901 - 376 pages |
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... battle . With hands they drew , the warriors dread , From shining sheaths their swords ring - hilted , Of edges doughty . " Most famous of all was the national epic which tells how the hero Beowulf sallies forth to slay Grendel , a ...
... battle . With hands they drew , the warriors dread , From shining sheaths their swords ring - hilted , Of edges doughty . " Most famous of all was the national epic which tells how the hero Beowulf sallies forth to slay Grendel , a ...
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... battle - heroes Build a mould , gleaming after the burning , On a cliff by the shore . It shall , a memorial To my people , tower high on Hrones - næs- So that sea - farers seeing call it Beowulf's mount , Who drive afar their keels o ...
... battle - heroes Build a mould , gleaming after the burning , On a cliff by the shore . It shall , a memorial To my people , tower high on Hrones - næs- So that sea - farers seeing call it Beowulf's mount , Who drive afar their keels o ...
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... battle , or strife of heroes , or wild adventure . It is in these that the figurative phrases which leaven Anglo - Saxon literature recur repeatedly . The ocean is the " whale - path , " " swan - path , " " battle of the waves . " The ...
... battle , or strife of heroes , or wild adventure . It is in these that the figurative phrases which leaven Anglo - Saxon literature recur repeatedly . The ocean is the " whale - path , " " swan - path , " " battle of the waves . " The ...
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... battle array , and riding about , exhorted and encouraged his warriors . Then he dis- mounted from his horse , and took his place among his faith- ful thegns . " On the other shore stood a herald of the Wikings , who , with a powerful ...
... battle array , and riding about , exhorted and encouraged his warriors . Then he dis- mounted from his horse , and took his place among his faith- ful thegns . " On the other shore stood a herald of the Wikings , who , with a powerful ...
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... battle . " Then the protector of heroes commanded a hardened veteran , Wulfstan , son of Ceola , to guard the bridge . Near hin : stood the two fearless warriors , Ælfhere and Maccus . They defended themselves with vigour against the ...
... battle . " Then the protector of heroes commanded a hardened veteran , Wulfstan , son of Ceola , to guard the bridge . Near hin : stood the two fearless warriors , Ælfhere and Maccus . They defended themselves with vigour against the ...
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Alfred the West Saxon, King of the English (Classic Reprint) Dugald Macfadyen No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 207 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 190 - Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat — one Who can rule and dare not lie.
Page 61 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 207 - And let them judge the people at all seasons : and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge : so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
Page 321 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 91 - WELL for him whose will is strong ! He suffers, but he will not suffer long ; He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong : For him nor moves the loud world's random mock, Nor all Calamity's hugest waves confound, Who seems a promontory of rock, That, coirpass'd round with turbulent sound, In middle ocean meets the surging shock, Tempest-buffeted, citadel-crown'd.
Page 61 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Page 190 - Keep ye the Law — be swift in all obedience — Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown ; By the peace among Our peoples let men know we serve the Lord!
Page 61 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 221 - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.