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... Universal Histories , " in which the smallest modicum of fact was diluted in an incredible quantity of fiction , amused and edified the naïve credulity of the Middle Age . If chronological order had been strictly followed , William ...
... Universal Histories , " in which the smallest modicum of fact was diluted in an incredible quantity of fiction , amused and edified the naïve credulity of the Middle Age . If chronological order had been strictly followed , William ...
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... universal fadir in sciènce , Alas that thou thine excellent prudence In thy bed mortel mightest not bequethe ! What eyled Death ? Alas ! why would he sle the ? John Lydgate , a Benedictine monk of Bury St. Edmunds , who flourished about ...
... universal fadir in sciènce , Alas that thou thine excellent prudence In thy bed mortel mightest not bequethe ! What eyled Death ? Alas ! why would he sle the ? John Lydgate , a Benedictine monk of Bury St. Edmunds , who flourished about ...
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... universal . The author professes not only to have traversed the Holy Land in several directions , but to have visited many countries farther east , including even India ; but , when we come to the chapters which treat of these countries ...
... universal . The author professes not only to have traversed the Holy Land in several directions , but to have visited many countries farther east , including even India ; but , when we come to the chapters which treat of these countries ...
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... universal disquietude , was not likely to be steadily maintained . Why the fifty years which followed the victory of Bosworth should have been so utterly barren of good poetry , it is less easy to see . All that can be said is , that ...
... universal disquietude , was not likely to be steadily maintained . Why the fifty years which followed the victory of Bosworth should have been so utterly barren of good poetry , it is less easy to see . All that can be said is , that ...
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... universal Church . Elizabeth , whose sagacity detected the one paramount political want of the country , concluded , in the second year of her reign , a rather inglorious peace with France , and devoted all her energies to the work 74 ...
... universal Church . Elizabeth , whose sagacity detected the one paramount political want of the country , concluded , in the second year of her reign , a rather inglorious peace with France , and devoted all her energies to the work 74 ...
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Page 403 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 369 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 327 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 426 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 446 - FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak. The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust. Fear no more the lightning-flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone; Fear not slander, censure...
Page 449 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 415 - A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 387 - Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Page 448 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 356 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...