Rogvald; an Epic Poem ...G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 - 368 trang |
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altar amid ancient Andredswald angel Armorica arms art thou battle beams beamy beauteous beauty behold beneath blast blaze blood bosom brave breath bright Britons brows Ceolred chiefs clad clouds courser Cridda's crown dark death deep doth dread earth Elburga Eorl Ethelred falchion fame fell fierce fire flames flings flood flowers Gaul gleam glory gold golden groves halls harp hath heard heart heaven Hildaberg honour host isle Kenred Kenred's king King of Mercia king of Wessex light lofty lord loud maid martial Mercian mighty mountain night o'er Odin Offrida pale pomp prince proud queen radiant realms regal renowned roar rocks Rogvald rolling rose round rush Saxon Scaldic shades shields shone shore shouts shriek shrine sire soul sounds splendour steeds storm sweet swell sword thee Thegns thou throne thunder tomb towers virgin voice warlike warmen warrior waves wild winds wing Woden
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Trang vii - This rule is as fine and just as any in Aristotle's whole Art of Poetry. / If the fable is only probable, it differs / nothing from a true history; if it is only marvellous, it is no better than a romance. The great secret, therefore, of heroic poetry is to relate such circumstances as may produce in the reader at the same time both belief and astonishment.
Trang ix - And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished : after this he must be loosed for a little time.
Trang xii - This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands...
Trang 196 - But, doom'd to drag my loathsome life in care, For my reward, must end it in despair. Fire, water, air, and earth, and force of fates...
Trang 329 - Whether this was a mere title assumed by Hengist, and afterwards by Ella, and continued by the most successful Anglosaxon prince of his day, or conceded in any national council of all the Anglosaxons, or ambitiously assumed by the Saxon king that most felt and pressed his temporary power, — whether it was an imitation of the British unbennaeth, or a continuation of the Saxon custom of electing a war-cyning, cannot now be ascertained.
Trang 212 - She spake, then touch'd him with her powerful wand : The skin shrunk up, and wither'd at her hand : A swift old age o'er all his members spread ; A sudden frost was sprinkled on his head ; N"or longer in the heavy eyeball shined The glance divine, forth beaming from the mind.
Trang 334 - Gray also made other allusions to Mallet from time to time, which show that he was reading him carefully. Mallet made a strong plea for the study of the customs and manners and mythology of the ancient Danes. He said, " The most affecting and most striking passages in the ancient northern poetry, were such as now seem to us the most whimsical, unintelligible, and overstrained. So different are our modes of thinking from theirs. We can admit of nothing but what is accurate and perspicuous. They only...
Trang vii - Milton's fable is a master-piece of this nature ; as the war in heaven, the condition of the fallen angels, the state of innocence, the temptation of the serpent, and the fall of man, though they are very astonishing in themselves, are not only credible, but actual points of faith.
Trang 347 - Let the waters be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear.
Trang 292 - Seem'd to die too : yea, at that very moment, Consideration like an angel came, And whipp'd th' offending Adam out of him, Leaving his body as a paradise, T* envelop and contain celestial spirits.