The Cædmon PoemsG. Routledge & Sons, limited, 1916 - 258 pages |
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Adam and Eve Almighty altenglischen angelsächsischen Anglia Anglo-Saxon Babylon bade battle beauty Bede beheld Beowulf bidding bitter blessed bliss Cadmon Cain Carolingian Christ and Satan counsel Daniel darkness death deed dream dwell earth Eternal Lord evil exile Exodus faithful favour fiend fire flame flood foes fruit furnace gave Genesis gleaming glory God's Grein grim hand Harrowing of Hell hath heathen heavenly kingdom Heliand hell house of pain Hymn journey Junius manuscript King of heaven kinsmen knew Lamech land lived Lord of angels Lord of heaven Lord of hosts Mahalaleel mighty multitude Noah Old Saxon Paradise Lost poem poet praise realm righteous Saxon shining sinful Sodom Sodom and Gomorrah sons soul spake unto spirits strength Teutonic thanes thee thou hast thou shalt throne torment treasure tree tribe vengeance Vulgate Warden warriors wife winters wisdom words wrath wrought
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Page xxxvii - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! . . .For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page lxiv - Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it; Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
Page xxxix - Without copartner ? so to add what wants In female sex, the more to draw his love, And render me more equal ; and perhaps, A thing not undesirable, sometime Superior; for, inferior, who is free?
Page xxxix - This may be well. But what if God have seen, And death ensue '. then I shall be no more ! And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct: A death to think ! Confirm'd then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe.
Page xix - Egypt, and their entering into the land of promise, with many other histories from holy writ ; the incarnation, passion, resurrection of our Lord, and his ascension into heaven ; the coming of the Holy Ghost, and the preaching of the apostles ; also the terror of future judgment, the horror of the pains of hell, and the delights of heaven...
Page xvii - ... for having lived in a secular habit till he was well advanced in years, he had never learned anything of versifying ; for which reason being sometimes at entertainments, when it was agreed for the sake of mirth that all present should sing in their turns, when he saw the instrument come towards him, he rose up from table and returned home.
Page xvii - ... home. Having done so at a certain time, and gone out of the house where the entertainment was, to the stable, where he had to take care of the horses that night, he there composed himself to rest at the proper time; a person appeared to him in his sleep, and saluting him by his name, said, "Caedmon, sing some song to me.
Page xviii - This is the sense, but not the words in order as he sang them in his sleep ; for verses, though never so well composed, cannot be literally translated out of one language into another, without losing much of their beauty and loftiness.
Page xv - November, at the age of sixty-six years ; the first thirty-three of which she spent living most nobly in the secular habit ; and more nobly dedicated the remaining half to our Lord in a monastic life. For she was nobly born, being the daughter of Hereric, nephew to King Edwin, with...
Page xv - ... the former; and taught there the strict observance of justice, piety, chastity, and other virtues, and particularly of peace and charity ; so that after the example of the primitive Church, no person was there rich, and none poor, all being in common to all, and none having any property.