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... knew his visitor , remembered his father Ecgtheow and whom he had married , knew also that Beowulf was famed for having the strength of thirty in his hand - grip . God in his mercy must have sent him to the help of the West Danes . Then ...
... knew his visitor , remembered his father Ecgtheow and whom he had married , knew also that Beowulf was famed for having the strength of thirty in his hand - grip . God in his mercy must have sent him to the help of the West Danes . Then ...
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... knew , against the wretch , in the high hall , After the sunlight left them , and dusk night , The shadow helm of all created things , Came rolling onward , wan , beneath the clouds . The whole band rose , men greeted one another ...
... knew , against the wretch , in the high hall , After the sunlight left them , and dusk night , The shadow helm of all created things , Came rolling onward , wan , beneath the clouds . The whole band rose , men greeted one another ...
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... knew his foul intent , And fastened on his arm . Herdsman of mischiefs , Soon he found , that on earth in all its parts A stronger hand - grip never had he felt . Fearful in mind and soul , he sought escape , But not for that came he ...
... knew his foul intent , And fastened on his arm . Herdsman of mischiefs , Soon he found , that on earth in all its parts A stronger hand - grip never had he felt . Fearful in mind and soul , he sought escape , But not for that came he ...
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... knew not fate , or grim calamity That often has befallen many an earl . This utterance of the mother's heart in commending her young sons to the care of the two men who have power to usurp their rights after the death of their father ...
... knew not fate , or grim calamity That often has befallen many an earl . This utterance of the mother's heart in commending her young sons to the care of the two men who have power to usurp their rights after the death of their father ...
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... knew that wood of the forest would not help him against fire . Life's miseries must end for the prince , and for the worm with him , though he long had held the hoard - wealth . The giver of rings disdained to seek the highflier with a ...
... knew that wood of the forest would not help him against fire . Life's miseries must end for the prince , and for the worm with him , though he long had held the hoard - wealth . The giver of rings disdained to seek the highflier with a ...
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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.