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v to turn out favorably succeed: pret sg
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pret part past) so sceacen
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strange wondrous: nom sg
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sea) pret part on-sended
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acc to surpass outdo : pres sg
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adv better fitter more excellent so
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cunningly inlaid ornamented with gold: nom sg
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: a) since after from now on further nor after
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be-sittan obsidere to surround besiege w acc the leavings of the sword wound-weary
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v to descend sink incline: pret pl
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sleeping warrior] acc pl danes
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acc : ) to fight a battle: pret sg
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f persecution hostile pursuit or grendel's persecution
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soothfast established in truth orthodox : gen pl
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v to speed well help avail: pret sg
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f speech language: instr sg
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part ge feor hostilities against us
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you safe and sound on your journey ) comp an-sund
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e feorh ealgian) so
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part synnum ge-swenced lyft-ge-swenced
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vapor smoke smoking flame: dat sg
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quiet still: nom sg gif him
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with b ) pret part
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ii adverbial modifier quasi preposition [better explained in many cases as prep
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the wave-floater in her course over the water) pret part ended
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v to thank: pret sg
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pl etc comp
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sg that) pret pl
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v = necessitatem imponere: pret part
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v to oppress restrain inf
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) pres pl hy
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requires acc b) after verbs of venturing and fighting with acc of
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un-lifgendum gen sg un-lyfigendes
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not strongly or powerfully compar sword bit less sharply than the prince of the people needed
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es pl walu
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byrhtan byrig brosinga mene (since h bore from the bright city the brosing-collar
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restan lyste ) indeed to be sure
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werum gen pl wera
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weardode reced weardode pl
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f wretched remnant: acc pl
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v to honor adorn: pret sg
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wicg gen pl wicga
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wilnian w v to long for beseech: inf
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motion): ) with inf after verbs of motion: pret sg
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m exile-step exile banishment: acc sg
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: ) artistic ornamental valuable: acc sg sg
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prep : pres sg
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gen subj pres
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yldan w v to delay put off: inf
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b his life) so ymb feorh sacan sundor-nytte prize for swimming
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v to ravage devastate destroy: pret sg
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beowulf makes an end of his tale of the swimming wealhtheow hrothgar's queen greets him and hrothgar delivers to him the warding of the hall
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the danes rejoice they go to look on the slot of grendel and come back to hart and on the way make merry with racing and the telling of tales
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beowulf gives hrothgar's gifts to hygelac and by him is rewarded of the death of hygelac and of heardred his son and how beowulf is king of the geats: the worm is first told of
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the worm burns beowulf's house and beowulf gets ready to go against him beowulf's early deeds in battle with the hetware told of
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dayraven a brave warrior of the hugs and probably the slayer of hygelac whom in that case beowulf avenged
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eotens ) are the people of finn king of friesland in other passages it is merely a name for a race of monsters
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wulfgar a lord of the wendels is an official of hrothgar's court where he is the first to greet beowulf and his geats and introduces them to hrothgar
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in order to please the larger class of readers a regular cadence has been used a measure which while retaining the essential characteristics of the original permits the reader to see ahead of him in reading
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of all english translations of beowulf that of professor garnett alone gives any adequate idea of the chief characteristics of this great teutonic epic
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avoided again though many archaic words have been used there are none it is believed which are not found in standard modern poetry
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son of hrethel and brother of higelac kills his brother herebeald accidentally is slain at ravenswood fighting against ongentheow
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to this the friend of the scyldings has agreed etc the tenses will be brought into perfect harmony
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the huntsman unmindful of his tender spouse remains in the cold air whether a hart is held in view by his faithful hounds or a marsian boar has broken the fine-wrought toils
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neither will i pass thee by in silence o bacchus bold in combat nor thee o virgin who art an enemy to the savage beasts nor thee o phoebus formidable for thy unerring dart
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we are all driven toward the same quarter: the lot of all is shaken in the urn destined sooner or later to come forth and embark us in boat for eternal exile
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depart whither your feet and the winds carry you while the night and venus are favorable: depart with happy omen yet not forgetful of me engrave my mournful story on my tomb
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just as the wolf does not attack any one with his hoof nor the bull with his teeth but the deadly hemlock in the poisoned honey will take off the old dame
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but as for you if a troublesome habit of body or creeping old age should come upon you what addition can be made to that soft indulgence which you now in youth and in health anticipate
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in a humorous dialogue between ulysses and tiresias he exposes those arts which the fortune hunters make use of in order to be appointed the heirs of rich old men
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the poet renounces all verses of a ludicrous turn and resolves to apply himself wholly to the study of philosophy which teaches to bridle the desires and to postpone every thing to virtue
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in a word the wise man is inferior to jupiter alone is rich free honorable handsome lastly king of kings above all he is sound unless when phlegm is troublesome
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do you write word what number you would be and setting aside business through the back-door give the slip to your client who keeps guard in your court
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he apologizes to maecenas for his long absence from rome and acknowledges his favors to him in such a manner as to declare liberty preferable to all other blessings
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leader the appearance of praising the man's parsimony he archly ridicules it introduces grosphus to him and concludes with a few articles of news concerning the roman affairs
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he describes to quinctius the form situation and advantages of his country house: then declares that probity consists in the consciousness of good works liberty in probity
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that a life of business is preferable to a private and inactive one the friendship of great men is a laudable acquisition yet their favors are ever to be solicited with modesty and caution
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in vain he endeavors to retain his book desirous of getting abroad tells it what trouble it is to undergo and imparts some things to be said of him to posterity
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what then pleases the cloth imitating violets with the dye of tarentum
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in apologizing for not having written to him he shows that the well-ordering of life is of more importance than the composition of verses
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this or i am mistaken will constitute the merit and beauty of arrangement that the poet just now say what ought just now to be said put off most of his thoughts and waive them for the present
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to celebrate gods and the sons of gods and the victorious wrestler and the steed foremost in the race and the inclination of youths and the free joys of wine the muse has alotted to the lyre
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nor call the dear consoler false and vain when yet again shining through april-tears those fair enlight'ning eyes beam on advancing years
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to honora sneyd whose health was always best in winter
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to a friend who thinks sensibility a misfortune
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written at lichfield in an eastern apartment of the bishop's palace which commands a view of stow valley
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then welcome midnight shades when thy wish'd boon may in oblivious dews my eye-lids steep thou child of night and silence balmy sleep
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an evening in november which had been stormy gradually clearing up in a mountainous country
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to fond credulity to rash resolve dost thou not prompt till reason's sacred aid and fair discretion in thy fires dissolve
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thus each faint glow-worm of the night conspires gleaming along the moss'd and darken'd lanes to cheer the gloom with her unreal fires
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to sylvia on her approaching nuptials
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to a timid young lady distressed by the attentions of an amiable and accepted lover
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on doctor johnson's unjust criticisms in his lives of the poets
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to a young lady purposing to marry a man of immoral character in the hope of his reformation
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: this sonnet was written on having read a description of the killarney scenery immediately after that of the vale of vaucluse uncultivated and comparatively desert as the latter has been through more than the present century
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now that angelic lights the soul invest calm let me yield to thee a joyless frame thou silent door of everlasting rest
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most of the notes to the ensuing paraphrases are addressed to their unlearned readers since no allusion can interest which is not perfectly comprehended
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: the caspian is a stormy and harbourless sea yet the poet observes that not even the caspian is always tempestuous insinuating that inevitable as his grief must be for such a loss it yet ought not to be incessant
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: the coldness of armenia is well known surrounded as it is by the high mountains of niphates taurus pariades antiaurus and ararat which are always covered with snow
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to wake my harp's enamour'd strings to tones that fright recumbent peace that pleasure flies on rapid wings
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