A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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Page 94
... virtue , but in the adventures of a knight or lady . It is Una - the trembling , tearful woman - for whom our hearts are moved with pity , and not forsaken Truth . We may fairly doff the allegory aside , and let it pass , and 1 I would ...
... virtue , but in the adventures of a knight or lady . It is Una - the trembling , tearful woman - for whom our hearts are moved with pity , and not forsaken Truth . We may fairly doff the allegory aside , and let it pass , and 1 I would ...
Page 95
... virtue which I write of in that book . " Of the twelve books he makes or intended to make twelve knights the patrons , each of twelve several virtues . The first , the knight of the Red Cross , expressing Holiness : the second , Sir ...
... virtue which I write of in that book . " Of the twelve books he makes or intended to make twelve knights the patrons , each of twelve several virtues . The first , the knight of the Red Cross , expressing Holiness : the second , Sir ...
Page 104
... virtue , are worthy to be had in great respect . But these Irish bards are for the most part of another mind , and so far from instructing young men in moral discipline , that they themselves do more deserve to be sharply disciplined ...
... virtue , are worthy to be had in great respect . But these Irish bards are for the most part of another mind , and so far from instructing young men in moral discipline , that they themselves do more deserve to be sharply disciplined ...
Page 107
... virtue , although not instructed in the school of Christ , or ever taught what the soundness of religion meaneth , that had not rather end the days of this transitory life , as Cyrus in Xenophon , or in Plato , Socrates , is described ...
... virtue , although not instructed in the school of Christ , or ever taught what the soundness of religion meaneth , that had not rather end the days of this transitory life , as Cyrus in Xenophon , or in Plato , Socrates , is described ...
Page 108
... virtue and knowledge in such as are entered before , a strong confirmation to the most perfect amongst others . Heroical magnanimity , exquisite justice , grave modera tion , exact wisdom , repentance unfeigned , unwearied patience ...
... virtue and knowledge in such as are entered before , a strong confirmation to the most perfect amongst others . Heroical magnanimity , exquisite justice , grave modera tion , exact wisdom , repentance unfeigned , unwearied patience ...
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