From Beowulf to Edward GibbonRobert Shafer Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931 |
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Pagina 186
... verses . So that verse being in itself sweet and orderly , and being best for memory , the only handle of knowledge , it must be in jest that any man can speak against it . Now then go we to the most important im- putations laid to the ...
... verses . So that verse being in itself sweet and orderly , and being best for memory , the only handle of knowledge , it must be in jest that any man can speak against it . Now then go we to the most important im- putations laid to the ...
Pagina 395
... VERSE The measure is English heroic verse without rime , as that of Homer in Greek , and of Virgil in Latin ; rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse , in longer works especially , but the invention of a ...
... VERSE The measure is English heroic verse without rime , as that of Homer in Greek , and of Virgil in Latin ; rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse , in longer works especially , but the invention of a ...
Pagina 462
... verse ; particularly is said to have invented the octave rime , or stanza of eight lines , which ever since has been maintained 10 which is not impaired to any great degree ; by the practice of all Italian writers who are , or at least ...
... verse ; particularly is said to have invented the octave rime , or stanza of eight lines , which ever since has been maintained 10 which is not impaired to any great degree ; by the practice of all Italian writers who are , or at least ...
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Arthur beauty Beowulf burning called Chaucer Christian court dear death delight doth earth Ecgtheow EVERYMAN eyes Faerie Queene FAINALL fair Faustus fear fell fire FOIBLE Geats give gold grace Grendel ground Guenever hand hast hath head Healfdene hear heard heart heaven hell Heorot hero holy honor Hrothgar Hygelac king King Arthur knight LADY WISHFORT learned live look lord madam MARWOOD Master Doctor MEPH Mephistophilis mighty MILLAMANT mind MIRABELL nature never noble o'er pain poem poetry poets praise pray prince Queen quoth Scyldings shal sing Sir Bedivere Sir Gawain Sir Launcelot Sir Lucan Sir Mordred SIR WILFULL song sorrow soul spake spirit stood sweet sword tell thee thine things thought tion unto verse virtue whan wise WITWOUD words ΙΟ