The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, 2. köideLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1836 |
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... Translation of BOETIUS's Consolations of Philo- sophy . - ALFRED considered as a Moral Essayist . - - His Thoughts , Tales , and Dialogues on various Subjects . His Translation of Boetius Considered as a moral Essayist His feeling of ...
... Translation of BOETIUS's Consolations of Philo- sophy . - ALFRED considered as a Moral Essayist . - - His Thoughts , Tales , and Dialogues on various Subjects . His Translation of Boetius Considered as a moral Essayist His feeling of ...
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... translation of Orosius His geographical knowlege Alfred's Notitia of Germany Ohthere's voyage Wulfstan's voyage Alfred's historical knowlege His translation of Bede His astronomy His botanical knowlege His translation of Gregory's ...
... translation of Orosius His geographical knowlege Alfred's Notitia of Germany Ohthere's voyage Wulfstan's voyage Alfred's historical knowlege His translation of Bede His astronomy His botanical knowlege His translation of Gregory's ...
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... translation of St. Austin's Meditations Character of St. Neot Alfred surnamed the Truth - teller CHAP . VI . ALFRED'S Public Conduct . His efforts to improve his countrymen 121 125 - 127 129 134 - 138 · 140 141 His embassy to India 145 ...
... translation of St. Austin's Meditations Character of St. Neot Alfred surnamed the Truth - teller CHAP . VI . ALFRED'S Public Conduct . His efforts to improve his countrymen 121 125 - 127 129 134 - 138 · 140 141 His embassy to India 145 ...
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... translation of the metres of Boetius . The memory of his children was also chiefly exercised in this captivating art . It had a powerful effect on Alfred's mind : it kindled a desire of being sung and celebrated himself ; it created a ...
... translation of the metres of Boetius . The memory of his children was also chiefly exercised in this captivating art . It had a powerful effect on Alfred's mind : it kindled a desire of being sung and celebrated himself ; it created a ...
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... translate any letter from the Latin . I think there were not many beyond the Humber ; they were so few , that I indeed cannot recollect one single instance on the south of the Thames , when I took the kingdom . " On less authority than ...
... translate any letter from the Latin . I think there were not many beyond the Humber ; they were so few , that I indeed cannot recollect one single instance on the south of the Thames , when I took the kingdom . " On less authority than ...
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Æthelweard afterwards Alfred Alfred's ancient Anglo-Saxon Anlaf Armorica Asser Athelstan battle bishop Boet Boetius BOOK Bretagne brother called Canute Celto CHAP Christians Chron Cleop clergy Copt Cotton Library creatures Danes Danish death dignity Dunstan Eadmer earth Edgar Edmund Edred Edward Edward the Martyr Edwin enemies England English Eric Ethelfleda Ethelred Ethelred the Unready evil father Flor friends gave Hakon hast Hist honour Hoveden Ibid Ingulf Jomsburg king king of Norway king's kingdom Knytlinga Saga land Latin lived lord Malmsb Malmsbury Matt ment mentioned Mercia mind monastery monks moral nation noble Northmen Northumbria Norway nouns Olave Orosius Osberne prince quæ reign sailed Saxon Chronicle says shillings ships Snorre sovereign Svein thee thegns things thou tions translation Turketul verbs vikingr virtue Welsh West wisdom wise
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Page 425 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 425 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 426 - When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him?
Page 426 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well ? the old man of whom ye spake ; is he yet alive ? And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive : and they bowed down their heads and made obeisance.
Page 428 - Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. • How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot : Eternal sun-shine of the spotless mind ! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd ; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep ; ' Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep ;' Desires composed, affections ever even ; Tears that delight,' and sighs that waft to heav'n.
Page 426 - And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
Page 22 - O THOU, whose power o'er moving worlds presides ! Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides ! On darkling man, in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine.
Page 427 - God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love.
Page 426 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. — The rolling year Is full of thee.
Page 83 - He was one of the first men in that country, yet he had not more than twenty horned cattle, and twenty sheep, and twenty swine, and the little that he ploughed he ploughed with horses. But their wealth consists for the most part in the rent paid them by the Fins. That rent is in skins of animals, and birds' feathers, and whalebone, and in ship-ropes made of whales