The College Survey of English Literature ...: The early period. The sixteenth century. The seventeenth century. The eighteenth centuryBartlett Jere Whiting, Fred Benjamin Millett Harcourt, Brace, 1942 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 79
Page 24
... carried out . My hall - troop , my band of warriors , is diminished ; Fate has swept them away into the ter- ror of Grendel . God may easily restrain the desper- ate foe from his deeds . Often enough men drunk with beer have boasted ...
... carried out . My hall - troop , my band of warriors , is diminished ; Fate has swept them away into the ter- ror of Grendel . God may easily restrain the desper- ate foe from his deeds . Often enough men drunk with beer have boasted ...
Page 31
... carried to him and friendship of- fered with words , and gold made into rings pre- sented in kindly fashion , two arm - ornaments , a coat of mail , and rings , the greatest of collars that I ever heard of on earth . I never heard under ...
... carried to him and friendship of- fered with words , and gold made into rings pre- sented in kindly fashion , two arm - ornaments , a coat of mail , and rings , the greatest of collars that I ever heard of on earth . I never heard under ...
Page 50
... carried to Hronesness . XLIII Then the people of the Geats made ready for him a splendid funeral pile on the earth , hung about with helmets , shields , and shining coats of mail , as he had requested . In the midst of it then the la ...
... carried to Hronesness . XLIII Then the people of the Geats made ready for him a splendid funeral pile on the earth , hung about with helmets , shields , and shining coats of mail , as he had requested . In the midst of it then the la ...
Contents
THE APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE | 1 |
THE EARLY PERIOD | 7 |
Mother Badger | 16 |
Copyright | |
33 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Arthur ballad battle beauty Beowulf blood body brother brought called century Chaucer dear death deeds doth earth Ecgtheow England English eyes fair Falstaff father Faustus fear fight Gamelyn Geats give gold Grendel Guenever hall hand hast hath Healfdene hear heart heaven Heorot holy honour Horn horse Hrothgar Hygelac king King Arthur knight lady land literature live lord Makbeth Master Doctor matter Meph Mephistophilis mind never noble Ohthere Onela Ongentheow play poem poetry poets Prince prose queen quod Rimenhild Scyldings seyde seye shal ship sing Sir Bedivere Sir Launcelot Sir Lucan Sir Mordred song sorrow soul sweet swich sword tale tell thanne thee ther things thought thow thyng tion took unto verse warriors Weohstan whan wife wise wolde words young