The History of the Anglo-Saxons, Comprising the History of England from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, Volum 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
abbots afterwards Alcuin Aldhelm Alfred alluded ancestors ancient Aneurin Anglo Anglo-Saxon appear archbishop Athelstan bards battle Bede Beowulf bishops BOOK Bordarii Britons burgesses burghs Cædmon called CHAP charter Chief proprietors Christianity Chron church clergy cniht Cott Cotton Library council custom cyning dignity Domesday-book duces Dugd ealdorman earls earth Eddius England eorl express Gale gemot gerefa gild gold Grendel heaven hexameter honour Hrothgar Ibid illustrious Ingulf king king of Kent king's kingdom land Latin laws Llywarch Llywarch Hen Lord Malmsbury ment mentioned Mercia Merdhin milites mind monastery monks nation night noble passage periphrasis persons poems poet poetry pounds reign rhime Roman Saxon says Servi shillings Silvæ Sochmanni song specimen sword Taliesin thee thegn things thou tion twelfth century Urien verse VIII Villani warriors Welsh wife Wilk witan witena-gemot words
Passatges populars
Pàgina 149 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O GOD, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore GOD, even thy GOD, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Pàgina 194 - ... we will cause to be summoned the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Earls, and great Barons, individually by our letters. And besides, we will cause to be summoned in general by our Sheriffs and Bailiffs, all those who hold of us in chief...
Pàgina 567 - The three qualifications of poetry: endowment of genius, judgment from experience, and felicity of thought. The three pillars of judgment: bold design, frequent practice, and frequent mistakes.
Pàgina 198 - ... time and place. Moreover, the said knights are to have full and sufficient power for themselves and for the community of the aforesaid county, and the said citizens and burgesses for themselves and the communities of the aforesaid cities and boroughs separately, then and there for doing what shall then be ordained according to the common counsel in the premises, so that the aforesaid business shall not remain unfinished in any way for defect of this power.
Pàgina 91 - You might have seen, with sorrow, long ranks of young persons of both sexes, and of the greatest beauty, tied together with ropes, and daily exposed to sale : nor were these men ashamed, O horrid wickedness ! to give up their nearest relations, nay their own children to slavery.
Pàgina 325 - Thy house is not highly built ; it is unhigh and low. When thou art in it, the heelways are low, the side-ways unhigh. The roof is built thy breast full nigh ; so thou shalt in earth dwell full cold, dim, and...
Pàgina 44 - ... oath to William, he has a cloak or robe reaching nearly to his heels, and buttoned on the breast. They have always belts on. Most of them have shoes, which seem close round the ancle ; others, even the great men, sometimes have none.™...
Pàgina 433 - To gild their skins, we have these directions : " Take the red skin and carefully pumice it, and temper it in tepid water, and pour the water on it till it runs off limpid. Stretch it afterwards, and smooth it diligently with clean wood. When it is dry, take the...
Pàgina 259 - So that of eighteen lines, the periphrasis occupies fourteen, and in so many lines only conveys three ideas ; and all that the eighteen lines express is simply the first verse of the book of Genesis, " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Pàgina 571 - He, though only a shoemaker, was more intelligent than most of his own class ; he had read history more than many, was something of an antiquary, and had stored his memory with a number of interesting popular traditions. I was then about twelve or fourteen years of age ; like him, fond of history and antiquities. He one day shewed me a spot on the east side of the...