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Crashaw, Richard.

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Curran, John Philpot.

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Doddridge, Philip.

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Drayton, Michael.

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Dunbar William.

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Gibbon, Edward.

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Gray, Thomas.

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Habington, William.

Hales, John.

Hall, Bishop.

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Addison, Joseph.
Akenside, Mark.
Alfred, King.
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Bacon, Francis.
Barbour, John.

Barrow, Isaac.

Baxter, Richard.

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Bentham, Jeremy.
Berkeley, Bishop.
Berners, Lord.
Blair, Robert.
Bolingbroke, Lord.
Boyle, Robert.

Brougham, Lord.

Browne, Sir Thomas.

Browne, William. Browning, Elizabeth B.

Buckhurst, Lord.

Bunyan, John.
Burke, Edmund.

Burnet, Gilbert.
Burns, Robert.
Burton, Robert.
Butler, Samuel.
Butler, Bishop.
Byron, Lord.
Caedmon.

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Chatterton, Thomas.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chillingworth, William.

Clarendon, Earl of.

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Collins, William.
Cowley, Abraham.
Cowper, William.

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Hall, Joseph.

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Hall, Robert.

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Herbert, Lord.

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CHOICE

SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

CHAPTER I.

ANGLO-SAXON, SEMI-SAXON, AND OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE

A.-ANGLO-SAXON.

1.- CAEDMON, A. D. 650. The Creation. (Manual, p. 26.) (From Guest's English Rhythms, vol. ii. p. 32.)

Ne was her tha giet, nymthe heol- | Ne had there here as yet, save the

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Idel and unnyt.

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Dreama lease. Geseah deorc ges

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Stood deep and dim-strange to its Lord,

Idle 2 and useless.

On it with eyes glanc'd The stalwart king, and the place beheld

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Idel, A. S., barren, idle. Deserts idle. - Othello Idle pebbles. - Lear.

Seman is the active verb; semian, I believe, is always neuter. In Caedmon 4.

Wan, in the sense of dismal, was long known to our poetry:

Min is the drenching in the sea so wan. —

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2. KING ALFRED. Ohther's Narrative, in Translation of Boëthius. (Manual, p. 28.)

(From Marsh's Origin and History of the English Language, pp. 125–128.)

Fela spella him sædon tha Beor- Many things him told the Beot. mas, ægther ge of hyra agenum mas, both of their own land and of lande ge of thæm lande the ymb the land that around them about hy utan wæron; ac he nyste hwat were; but he wist-not what (of-) thas sothes wær, forthem he hit the sooth was, for-that he it self sylf ne geseah. Tha Finnas him not saw. The Finns him thought, thuhte, and tha Beormas spræcon and the Beormas spoke nigh one neah an getheode. Swithost he language. Chiefliest he fared thifor thyder, to-eacan thæs landes ther, besides the land's seeing, for sceawunge, for them hors-hwæl- the horse-whales, for-that they um, forthæm hi habbath swythe have very noble bones in their æthele ban on hyra tothum, tha teeth, these teeth they brought teth hy brohton sume thæm cy-some (to-) the king: and their hide nincge: and hyra hyd bith swythe is very good for ship-ropes. This god to scip-rapum. Se hwæl bith micle læssa thonne othre hwalas, ne bith he lengra thonne syfan elna lang; ac on his agnum lande is se betsta hwæl-huntath, tha beoth eahta and feowertiges elna lange, and tha mæstan fiftiges elna lange; thara he sæde that he syxa sum ofsloge syxtig on twam dagum. lle was swythe spedig man on tham æhtum the heora speda on beoth, that is on wild-deorum. He hæfde tha-gyt, tha he thone cyningc sohte, tamra deora unbebohira syx hund. Tha deor hi hatath hranas, thara wæron syx stæl-hranas, tna beoth swy the dyre mid Finnum, for-th&m ly fod tha wildan hranas mid.

whale is much less that other whales, not is he longer than seven ells long; but in his own land is the best whale-hunting, they are eight and forty ells long, and the largest fifty ells long; (of) these he said that he (of-) six some slew sixty in two days. He was (a) very wealthy man in the ownings that their wealth in is, that is in wild-deer. He had yet, when ne the king sought, (of-) tanie deer unsold six hundred. These deci they hight reins, (of-) them were six stale-reins, these are very dear with (the) Finns, for-that they catch the wild reins with (them).

3. KING ALFRED. Translation of the Pastorale of St. Gregory. (Manual, p. 28.)

(From Wright's Biographia Britannica Literaria, Anglo-Saxon period, p. 397.)

Elfred kyning hateth gretung Alfred the king greets affec Wulfsige bisceop his worthum tionately and friendly bishop Wulfluflice and freondlice, and the sige his worthy, and bid the eythan hate, that me com swithe know, that it occurred to me ve.; oft on ge-mynd, hwylce witan geo often in my mind, what kind of weron geond Angel-cyn, ægther wise men there formerly were ge godcundra hada ge world- throughout the English nation, as cundra, and hu ge-sæliglica tida well of the spiritual degree as of tha wæron geond Angle-cyn, and laymen, and how happy times u tha cyningas the thone anweald there were then among the Enghæfdon thæs folces, Gode and his lish people, and how the kings æryndwritum hyrsumodon; and who then had the government of hu hi ægther ge hcora sybbe ge the people obeyed God and his heora sydo, and ge heora anweald Evangelists, and how they both in innan borde gehealdon and eac ut their peace and in their war, and hira ethel rymdon; and hu him in their government, held them at tha speow, ægther ge mid wige ge home, and also spread their noblemid wisdome; and eac tha god-ness abroad, and how they then cundan hadas hu georne hi wæron flourished as well in war as in ægther ge ymbe lara ge ymbe leor-wisdom; and also the religious nunga, and ymbe ealle the theow- orders how earnest they were both domas thi hy Gode sceoldon, and about doctrine and about learning, hu man ut on borde wisdome and and about all the services that they lare hider on land sohte, and hu owed to God; and how people we hi nu sceoldon ute begitan, gif abroad came hither to this land in we hi habban sceoldon. Swa search of wisdom and teaching, clæne heo was othfeallen on An- and how we now must obtain them gel-cynne that swithe feawa wæron from without if we must have them. beheonan Humbre the hira the- So clean it was ruined amongst nunge cuthon understandan on the English people, that there were Englisc, oththe furthon an ærend- very few on this side the Humber ge-writ of Ledene on Englisc arec- who could understand their service can; and ic wene that naht monige in English, or declare forth an be-geondan Humbre næron. Swa epistle out of Latin into English; feawa heora wæron, that ic fur- and I think that there were not thon anne ænlepne ne mag ge- many beyond the Humber. So thencan besuthan Thamise tha few such there were, that I cannot tha ic to rice feng. Gode ælmigh- think of a single one to the south tigum sy thane, that we nu ænigne of the Thames when I began to an steal habbath lareowa. For reign. To God Almighty be tham ic the beode, that thu do thanks, that we now have anv awa ic ge-lyfe that thu wille, that thu the thissa woruld thinga to tham ge-æmtige, swa thu oftost mage, that thu thone wisdome the the God sealde thær thær thu nine befæstan mæge befæst. Gethenc hwilce witu us tha becomon for thisse woruld, tha tha we hit na hwather ne selfe ne lufedon, ne

teacher in stall. Therefore I bid thee that thou do as I believe thou wilt, that thou, who pourest out to them these worldly things as often as thou mayest, that thou bestow the wisdom which God gave thee wherever thou mayest bestow it Think what kind of punishments shall come to us for this world, if

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