The Contemporary Review, Volume 42A. Strahan, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... best of all Rossetti's ballads , and probably his greatest poem , is ' The King's Tragedy , ' founded on the murder of James I. of Scotland at midnight 6 in the Charter - house of Perth . Here we 26 THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW .
... best of all Rossetti's ballads , and probably his greatest poem , is ' The King's Tragedy , ' founded on the murder of James I. of Scotland at midnight 6 in the Charter - house of Perth . Here we 26 THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW .
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... King's Quhair ' - they two had journeyed to Perth to pass their Christmastide in the monastery of the Black Friars there . During their stay , some nobles in the wild north , who had suffered by the king's vigorous rule , conspired ...
... King's Quhair ' - they two had journeyed to Perth to pass their Christmastide in the monastery of the Black Friars there . During their stay , some nobles in the wild north , who had suffered by the king's vigorous rule , conspired ...
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... King , His death grows up from his birth , In a shadow - plant perpetually ; And thine towers high , a black yew tree , O'er the Charter - house of Perth . ' The voice had hardly ceased when the king and the queen and their attendants ...
... King , His death grows up from his birth , In a shadow - plant perpetually ; And thine towers high , a black yew tree , O'er the Charter - house of Perth . ' The voice had hardly ceased when the king and the queen and their attendants ...
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... King , " * while around his territories were grouped the great feudatory Dukes and Counts of Normandy , Brittany , and Champagne , of Burgundy and Aquitaine , of Toulouse , Gascony , and Flanders . The process of absorption whereby " the ...
... King , " * while around his territories were grouped the great feudatory Dukes and Counts of Normandy , Brittany , and Champagne , of Burgundy and Aquitaine , of Toulouse , Gascony , and Flanders . The process of absorption whereby " the ...
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... King Richard's sake " that he wrote : that is , upon a suggestion thrown out by the King— " To whom belongeth my legeaunce With all min herte's obeisaunce In all that ever a lege man Unto his king may don or can . " Such expressions as ...
... King Richard's sake " that he wrote : that is , upon a suggestion thrown out by the King— " To whom belongeth my legeaunce With all min herte's obeisaunce In all that ever a lege man Unto his king may don or can . " Such expressions as ...
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Page 573 - And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Page 21 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 251 - I have loved justice and hated iniquity ; therefore, I die in exile.
Page 786 - I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in any man's narrow construction of its letter here or there.
Page 571 - If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India.
Page 251 - Servants of God! — or sons Shall I not call you? because Not as servants ye knew Your Father's innermost mind, His, who unwillingly sees One of his little ones lost Yours is the praise, if mankind Hath not as yet in its march Fainted, and fallen, and died!
Page 543 - They summ'd their pens ; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect ; there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build : Part loosely wing the region ; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Page 762 - It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence bring with them hands. The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much.
Page 31 - Listen alone beside the sea, Listen alone among the woods ; Those voices of twin solitudes Shall have one sound alike to thee : Hark where the murmurs of thronged men Surge and sink back and surge again, — Still the one voice of wave and tree.
Page 27 - King, in a death-light of thine own I saw thy shape arise. "And in full season, as erst I said, The doom had gained its growth; And the shroud had risen above thy neck And covered thine eyes and mouth.