King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius: With an English Translation, and NotesW. Pickering, 1835 - 144 pages |
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... afterwards destroyed in the un- fortunate fire when so many Cottonian MSS . fell a prey to the devouring element . The transcript is preserved among the Junian MSS . in the Bodleian Library , Oxford ; and the edition of Rawlinson merely ...
... afterwards destroyed in the un- fortunate fire when so many Cottonian MSS . fell a prey to the devouring element . The transcript is preserved among the Junian MSS . in the Bodleian Library , Oxford ; and the edition of Rawlinson merely ...
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... afterwards began 5 To sing maxims , And thus expressed himself . How was the first age To the inhabitants Throughout the earth , 10 To each one happy ! When to every one In the earth's fruits Abundance appeared : It is not so now ...
... afterwards began 5 To sing maxims , And thus expressed himself . How was the first age To the inhabitants Throughout the earth , 10 To each one happy ! When to every one In the earth's fruits Abundance appeared : It is not so now ...
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... afterwards would have been Honoured in the world , If they had discovered 75 His evil will of old : [ all . He would have been loathsome to O that it might be ! Or that God would , That on earth now , 80 In our times , Through the wide ...
... afterwards would have been Honoured in the world , If they had discovered 75 His evil will of old : [ all . He would have been loathsome to O that it might be ! Or that God would , That on earth now , 80 In our times , Through the wide ...
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... afterwards , ever , The mighty Lord 70 Would mete out Punishment by their deeds , To the doers of wickedness . But he in his mind rejoicing In stratagems and frauds , 75 A tyrant remained . Yet he even so governed All this extensive ...
... afterwards , ever , The mighty Lord 70 Would mete out Punishment by their deeds , To the doers of wickedness . But he in his mind rejoicing In stratagems and frauds , 75 A tyrant remained . Yet he even so governed All this extensive ...
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... Weather immoderately cold , And swift winds . 120 Summer afterwards comes , And warm weather . Lo ! the dark night The moon enlightens , Until day to men 125 The sun brings , ziond þar sidan gesceaft . Dærd re ilca God . BOETHIUS . 47.
... Weather immoderately cold , And swift winds . 120 Summer afterwards comes , And warm weather . Lo ! the dark night The moon enlightens , Until day to men 125 The sun brings , ziond þar sidan gesceaft . Dærd re ilca God . BOETHIUS . 47.
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æfɲe æfter æghpilc ælcer ælmihtig ænig æɲ afterwards alliteration Almighty anpald bið Boet Boethius butan buton children of men cyning dæg Dɲihten Dpær Eala ealla ealle ealler eallum eallunga efne eoɲþan eoppan eternal fæder færte fela foɲ Foɲþæm gehpilc geond gerceafta gerceop gif þu habbað heaven heofoner heofonum hine hiɲe hiona Junius King leoht lichoman Lord mæg mæɲan mæz mazon meaht METRE micel miclum middan geard middle earth mind monna monnum niht ofer pæne pær paldend peah penan peoɲulde pið pide pillan pince pind pitan polcnum polde pone ponne puhta puhte rceal recan recze relfe riðþan rpa rame Ruler rume runnan rýmle spide stars thee thing Thou mayest wonder Worldly creatures ymbe þæm þæɲe þæt þam þaɲa þeah þing þinum þir þone þonne þuɲh þý
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Page 23 - Jovful that they may. But the stark storm, When it strong comes From north and east, It quickly takes away The beauty of the rose. And also the northern storm, Constrained by necessity, That it is strongly agitated, Lashes the spacious sea Against the shore. Alas ! that on earth Aught of permanent Work in the world Does not ever remain . METRE XIII.
Page 141 - ... it, for the various and manifold worldly occupations which often busied him both in mind and in body. The occupations are to us very difficult to be numbered which in his days came upon the...
Page 92 - О children of men, Throughout the middle earth ! Let every one of the free Aspire to the Eternal good Which we are speaking about, And to the felicities That we are telling of. Let him, who is now...
Page 13 - The darkling mind, When it the strong Storms lash Of worldly cares; When it, thus contending, Its proper light Once forsakes, And in woe forgets The everlasting joy, And rushes into the darkness Of this world, Afflicted with cares ! Thus has it now befallen This my mind ; Now it no more knows Of good for God, But lamentations For the external world : To it is need of comfort METRE VI...
Page 23 - ... When the sun Clearest shines, Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured Over the earth All other stars ; Because their brightness is not Brightness at all, Compared with The sun's light. When mild blows The south and western wind Under the clouds, Then quickly grow The flowers of the field...
Page 93 - That is a pleasant place, After these miseries, To possess. But I well know, That neither golden vessels, Nor heaps of silver, Nor precious stones, Nor the wealth of the middle earth, The eyes of the mind...
Page 101 - And of himself 10 The swarthy mist, The darkness of the mind Can dispel! We will as yet, With God's help, 15 With old and fabulous Stories instruct Thy mind; That thou the better mayst Discover to the skies 20 The right path; To the eternal region Of our souls. METRE XXIV.
Page 53 - That it is strongly agitated, bashes the spacious sea Against the shore. Alas ! that on earth Aught of permanent Work in the world Does not ever remain . METRE XIII. I WILL with songs Still declare, How the Almighty All creatures Governs with his bridle, Bends where he will, — With his well ordered Power Wonderfully Well moderates. The Ruler of the heavens Has so controlled And encompassed All creatures, And bound them with his chains, That they cannot find out That they ever from them May slip...
Page 14 - Storms lash Of worldly cares; When it, thus contending, Its proper light Once forsakes, And in woe forgets The everlasting joy, And rushes into the darkness Of this world, Afflicted with cares ! Thus has it now befallen This my mind ; Now it no more knows Of good for God, But lamentations For the external world : To it is need of comfort METRE VI THE* Wisdom again His treasury of words unlocked, Sung various maxims, And thus expressed himself.
Page 55 - Her tameness will keep: 50 But I think That she this new tameness, Will naught regard ; But will remember The wild habits 55 Of her parents. She will begin in earnest Her chains to sever, To roar, And first will bite 60 Her own...