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... death - song " the monster reels away to die amid his fen . That day the Danes and their deliverers rejoice , and there is another feast . The Danes now remain in the hall ; Beowulf goes elsewhere . With night comes the mother of ...
... death - song " the monster reels away to die amid his fen . That day the Danes and their deliverers rejoice , and there is another feast . The Danes now remain in the hall ; Beowulf goes elsewhere . With night comes the mother of ...
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... death , and Beowulf , laden with gifts and honor , returns home . Fifty years pass . Beowulf is an old king who has ruled with strong hand and gentle heart over his people . But now a dragon comes to waste the land . The old hero girds ...
... death , and Beowulf , laden with gifts and honor , returns home . Fifty years pass . Beowulf is an old king who has ruled with strong hand and gentle heart over his people . But now a dragon comes to waste the land . The old hero girds ...
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... death . Grendel and his mother may fairly be taken as types of these storms . In autumn they burst forth afresh . The waning power of summer closes with them in fiercest struggle . After long combat both the year and the storms sink ...
... death . Grendel and his mother may fairly be taken as types of these storms . In autumn they burst forth afresh . The waning power of summer closes with them in fiercest struggle . After long combat both the year and the storms sink ...
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... Death , a stirring ballad of the later Anglo - Saxon period , the song follows the event so closely that the singer has not had time even to find out the name of the enemy's leaders . It is full of epic phrases and figures , and is ...
... Death , a stirring ballad of the later Anglo - Saxon period , the song follows the event so closely that the singer has not had time even to find out the name of the enemy's leaders . It is full of epic phrases and figures , and is ...
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... death of the martyr Laurentius ; it was in the metre of the Latin folk - song , and is called by Ebert the first exam- ple of a modern ballad . He compares the style , and even the metre , to the English popular ballads of later time ...
... death of the martyr Laurentius ; it was in the metre of the Latin folk - song , and is called by Ebert the first exam- ple of a modern ballad . He compares the style , and even the metre , to the English popular ballads of later time ...
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accented syllables action Alexandrine allegory alliteration anapestic Anglo-Saxon ballad beginning-rime Beowulf blank verse Byron cæsura called Century character Chaucer classic metres combined comedy common dactylic dance drama early effect end-rime English verse epic epic poetry example famous feminine foot four accents French Germanic Greek half-verse Hamlet harmony heavy syllables heroic verse hexameter hounds of spring hovering accent iamb iambic iambic movement imitated Keats King later Latin Layamon legend license light syllables lines literature long syllable Lost Love's Labour's Lost lyric poetry measure metaphor metre metrical scheme Milton moral nature play poem poet poetical popular prose quantity regular rhetorical rhythm rhythmic pause rimed couplets rimeless rule run-on says Septenary Shak Shakspere Shakspere's short silent simile sing slurring song sonnet sounds stanza stress stress-syllable style Surrey Tennyson thee thou tion tone tragedy trochaic trochee trope unaccented syllables verse-accent vowel word-accent words
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Page 120 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
Page 118 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 239 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Page 239 - WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow...
Page 223 - If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear By external swelling : but she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace.
Page 112 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 131 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 158 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Page 130 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Page 200 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.