| 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...scheme, were brought in their native tongue to the Anglo-Saxons. " Caedmon's poetry," says Milman, " was their Bible, no doubt far more effective in awakening...literal translation of the Scriptures could have been."* As early as the eighth century the Anglo-Saxons not only founded several public libraries at home,... | |
| Henry Hart Milman - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...the imaginative form which it then wore, made at once accessible to the Anglo-Saxon people. Caedmon's poetry was their bible, no doubt far more effective...poetry, a dim prophecy of what that poetry might become ' Kemble's Beowulf, with preface. propinquare sibi citharam cernebat, s " Unde nonnunquam in conviviis,... | |
| Arthur Charles Jennings - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...imaginative form which it then wore, made at once accessible to the Anglo-Saxon people.i Caedmou's poetry was their Bible, no doubt far more effective...literal translation of the Scriptures could have been." a In ' Probabl y at a later time vemaenlar translations of most of the Scriptures were executed. The... | |
| Edward Backhouse, Charles Tylor - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...CUTHBERT'S visiox. Per. ill. " Casdmon's poetry," remarks Milman, "was the *"'p' people's Bible. . . . He chose by the natural test of his own kindred sympathies,...or strike to the heart of a rude yet poetic race." 1 SECTION II. In the same year that Aidan died, so Bede relates, a youthful shepherd in the hill country... | |
| Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 170
...purest Greek models, displays at least an elevation characteristic of the noblest poetry. TESTIMONIES. THE Anglo-Saxon was the earliest vernacular Christian...poetry, a dim prophecy of what that poetry might become in Dante and Milton. While all the Greek and Latin poetry labored with the difficulties of an uncongenial... | |
| Henry Hart Milman - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 1124
...the imaginative farm which it then wore, made at once accessible to the Anglo-Saxon people. CiBdmon'a poetry was their bible, no doubt far more effective in awakening and changing the popular mind than & literal translation of the Scriptures could have been. He chose, by the natural test of his own kindred... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 812
...imaginative form which it then wore, made at once accessible to /the Anglo-Saxon people. Csedmon's poetry was their bible, no doubt far more effective...or strike to the heart of a rude yet poetic race. — MILMAN, HENRY HART, 18~>4, History of Latin Christianity, vol. II, p. 95. His style not unfrequently... | |
| 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...scheme, were brought in their native tongue to the Anglo-Saxons. " Caedmon's poetry," says Milman, " was their Bible, no doubt far more effective in awakening...literal translation of the Scriptures could have been."* As early as the eighth century the Anglo-Saxons not only founded several public libraries at home,... | |
| Edward William Edmunds - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 294
.... . The dominant note in the literature of these islands is the English note." — STOPFORD BROOKE. "The Anglo-Saxon was the earliest vernacular Christian...poetry, a dim prophecy of what that poetry might become in Dante and Milton." — HUMAN. 20 CHAPTER II MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD, 1066-1360 A. Historical Notes... | |
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