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... never attained the fair lady , modest pretensions , and unassuming merit , never secured the lady TRUTH . It is a libel upon the head and the heart ; and can- not be too speedily abandoned . Of the theories already advanced , none , it ...
... never attained the fair lady , modest pretensions , and unassuming merit , never secured the lady TRUTH . It is a libel upon the head and the heart ; and can- not be too speedily abandoned . Of the theories already advanced , none , it ...
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... never understood , and whose manners they detested ; nor would even have condescended or permitted themselves , to make such an adoption from a set of infidel barbarians who had invaded , ravaged , and possessed themselves of some of ...
... never understood , and whose manners they detested ; nor would even have condescended or permitted themselves , to make such an adoption from a set of infidel barbarians who had invaded , ravaged , and possessed themselves of some of ...
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... never would have hazarded the re- mark . And if judicial astrology , medicine , and chemistry , were of Arabian origin , and introduced into Europe a century at least before the crusades : if Pope Gerbert , or Syl- vester II . who died ...
... never would have hazarded the re- mark . And if judicial astrology , medicine , and chemistry , were of Arabian origin , and introduced into Europe a century at least before the crusades : if Pope Gerbert , or Syl- vester II . who died ...
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... never existed , and who seldom , whether real or supposititious , has any con- cern with the circumstances of the narra- tive ' . " The influence which this work has had on English poetry , is not the least surprizing fact connected ...
... never existed , and who seldom , whether real or supposititious , has any con- cern with the circumstances of the narra- tive ' . " The influence which this work has had on English poetry , is not the least surprizing fact connected ...
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... never hear . Then said the knight , every work is praised at the end . When the knight had ridden a little further , and nigh to the emperor's palace , he asked leave to go from him , for he knew a nearer way to the palace , to the ...
... never hear . Then said the knight , every work is praised at the end . When the knight had ridden a little further , and nigh to the emperor's palace , he asked leave to go from him , for he knew a nearer way to the palace , to the ...
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Page 379 - Twas there a vice, and seem'da madness here : Detesting that, and pitying this, he goes, Lost and confounded with the various shows. Now night's dim shades again involve the sky, Again the wanderers want a place to lie, Again they search, and find a lodging nigh : The soil...
Page 373 - Here we discover those features of chivalry, so admirably ridiculed by Cervantes. But, in times of oppression, when every one followed " the simple plan, That he may take who has the power, And he may keep who can...
Page 380 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Page 381 - Celestial odours breathe through purpled air ; And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display. The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light.
Page 378 - Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair...
Page 145 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 354 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 280 - Bra. Look to her, Moor ; have a quick eye to see ; She has deceived her father, and may thee.
Page 377 - As one who spies a serpent in his way, Glistening and basking in the summer ray, Disorder'd stops to shun the danger near, Then walks with...
Page 379 - But now the clouds in airy tumult fly, The sun emerging opes an azure sky ; A fresher green the smelling leaves display, And, glittering as they...