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... properly appreciate their actions ; and thus , while we obtain from history an account of public events and public characters , it is from the more B diffuse but popular records of contemporary literature that we discern LECTURE ...
... properly appreciate their actions ; and thus , while we obtain from history an account of public events and public characters , it is from the more B diffuse but popular records of contemporary literature that we discern LECTURE ...
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... history is the grand outline . There are perhaps few branches of literature more calculated to supply part of this information than poetry . While we occasionally meet with subjects furnished and adorned wholly by the imagination , we ...
... history is the grand outline . There are perhaps few branches of literature more calculated to supply part of this information than poetry . While we occasionally meet with subjects furnished and adorned wholly by the imagination , we ...
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... historical legends as fell within their reach . The prevalence of the French language amongst the Norman nobility , and its introduction into the court , tended to bring the old Anglo - Saxon tongue into disrepute , and the policy of ...
... historical legends as fell within their reach . The prevalence of the French language amongst the Norman nobility , and its introduction into the court , tended to bring the old Anglo - Saxon tongue into disrepute , and the policy of ...
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... . The reign of chivalry , fantastic as it may have been , forms a history of itself ; and however wild the spirit which gave rise to the institution , its effects were con- siderable . It soon spread over Europe , and aroused 10.
... . The reign of chivalry , fantastic as it may have been , forms a history of itself ; and however wild the spirit which gave rise to the institution , its effects were con- siderable . It soon spread over Europe , and aroused 10.
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... History of England and many other works in Latin , as was customary in the early ages when readers were few and learned , and authors looked for renown amongst the celebrated of other lands as well as their own . Alfred the Great ...
... History of England and many other works in Latin , as was customary in the early ages when readers were few and learned , and authors looked for renown amongst the celebrated of other lands as well as their own . Alfred the Great ...
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Page 38 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
Page 71 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
Page 99 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west; behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 101 - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 77 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 39 - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Page 103 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 77 - Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes...
Page 101 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Page 103 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.