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... coming against Grendel , and made some boast of his own prowess in former trials . If he died in the conflict he would need no burial . Grendel would eat him . But let his breastplate be sent to Hygelac ; it was Weland's work , the ...
... coming against Grendel , and made some boast of his own prowess in former trials . If he died in the conflict he would need no burial . Grendel would eat him . But let his breastplate be sent to Hygelac ; it was Weland's work , the ...
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... coming from above into the land of wonders , grasped at him and clutched the warrior . But she could not break his ring mail with her fingers . The sea - wolf bore the prince of rings to her dwelling , many a sea - beast with its war ...
... coming from above into the land of wonders , grasped at him and clutched the warrior . But she could not break his ring mail with her fingers . The sea - wolf bore the prince of rings to her dwelling , many a sea - beast with its war ...
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... coming to his house . Quickly the hall within was cleared for them , As the king bade . Then facing him who came Safe from the conflict , kin looked upon kin . After his lord had greeted with loud voice The faithful friend , went ...
... coming to his house . Quickly the hall within was cleared for them , As the king bade . Then facing him who came Safe from the conflict , kin looked upon kin . After his lord had greeted with loud voice The faithful friend , went ...
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... coming to the throne . Thus Ecgtheow's son had outlived all con- flicts till the day came when he must go forth against the dragon . A man who had visited the hoard and stolen from it a cup must show the path to the mound under the rock ...
... coming to the throne . Thus Ecgtheow's son had outlived all con- flicts till the day came when he must go forth against the dragon . A man who had visited the hoard and stolen from it a cup must show the path to the mound under the rock ...
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... coming out of the people to bring Beowulf's body with all honour to the burning on the funeral pile . They went sad and tearful to the rocks under the eagle's ness , and found the good chief soulless on the sands . The fire - dragon lay ...
... coming out of the people to bring Beowulf's body with all honour to the burning on the funeral pile . They went sad and tearful to the rocks under the eagle's ness , and found the good chief soulless on the sands . The fire - dragon lay ...
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Androgeus Archimago arms Arthur bade beast Beowulf blood Britons brother brought Brutus called Canterbury Tales canto castle cause Chaucer chief Corineus daughter dear death doth earth Ecgtheow ellés English eyes Faerie Queene fair father fear fell fight First-English fled gave gold Gorlois Goths grace Grendel Guyon hall hand hast hath haue Healfdene heard heart Heaven Hengist Heorot holy honour Hrothgar Hudibras Hygd Hygelac king king's knew knight labour lady land Layamon live Locrine look lord Merlin mighty mind nature never noble nought o'er peace Pisistratus poem poet Prince queen quoth Scyldings shal song soul spirit Squire story sword tale tell thee ther thing thou thought told Tom Jones took truth unto Uther virtue Vortigern whan wife wise wolde word
Popular passages
Page 184 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Page 187 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 260 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Page 195 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 183 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 197 - O flowers, That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ! Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Page 184 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 201 - twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do.
Page 186 - As, when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the North wind sleeps, o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element 490 Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow or shower, If chance the radiant sun, with farewell sweet, Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Page 192 - Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.