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... close of the period the territory outside the fortified cities was almost as Celtic as before the conquest . The Latin lan- guage was spoken in the island much as English is spoken at the present time in India , -to some extent in the ...
... close of the period the territory outside the fortified cities was almost as Celtic as before the conquest . The Latin lan- guage was spoken in the island much as English is spoken at the present time in India , -to some extent in the ...
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... close in upon her . It was so in Britain . During the Roman supremacy the wild tribes of Scotland and the North of Ireland had been held back . Time and again had it taken the whole force of the army to drive them over the border . So ...
... close in upon her . It was so in Britain . During the Roman supremacy the wild tribes of Scotland and the North of Ireland had been held back . Time and again had it taken the whole force of the army to drive them over the border . So ...
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... fighting the fierce wind " ; ice- bonds that close the currents ; the return of spring , and 66 1 Dr. Hall's translation . The Prehistoric Teuton 66 66 His Fatalism and Gloom the 26 The Foundations of English Literature.
... fighting the fierce wind " ; ice- bonds that close the currents ; the return of spring , and 66 1 Dr. Hall's translation . The Prehistoric Teuton 66 66 His Fatalism and Gloom the 26 The Foundations of English Literature.
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... close of the century of incursions for plunder and the opening of the new period of settle- ment . The century and a half following this date was in every respect a time of darkness : it was Christianity in a death struggle with ...
... close of the century of incursions for plunder and the opening of the new period of settle- ment . The century and a half following this date was in every respect a time of darkness : it was Christianity in a death struggle with ...
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... close of the era the unity of England was almost as far away as when it commenced . Even when Wessex had gathered all the kingdoms into a loose confederacy Roman Missionaries Arrive Spread of Christianity that owned Ecgberht as 32 The ...
... close of the era the unity of England was almost as far away as when it commenced . Even when Wessex had gathered all the kingdoms into a loose confederacy Roman Missionaries Arrive Spread of Christianity that owned Ecgberht as 32 The ...
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Page 378 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 297 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 147 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Page 370 - And then consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is as familiar to noble and simple, from John o...
Page 326 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life!
Page 311 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 346 - Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear, But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. We cease to grieve, cease to be fortune's slaves, Nay, cease to die, by dying.
Page 237 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To loose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to day, to be put back to morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow ; 900 To have thy Princes...
Page 241 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 221 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.