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... build a Cas- tel of Aberlhiennhawc . Then the Earls spoiled the ile and slew all that they found there . And at the verie same time Magnus , the sonne of Haroald , came with a great navie of ships to- wards England , minding to laie ...
... build a Cas- tel of Aberlhiennhawc . Then the Earls spoiled the ile and slew all that they found there . And at the verie same time Magnus , the sonne of Haroald , came with a great navie of ships to- wards England , minding to laie ...
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... buildings said to have been stables ; on which appear the arms of Queen Elizabeth , with those of the Earl of Pembroke , who succeeded to the Presidency on the death of his relation Sir Henry Sidney . Contiguous are the ruins of the ...
... buildings said to have been stables ; on which appear the arms of Queen Elizabeth , with those of the Earl of Pembroke , who succeeded to the Presidency on the death of his relation Sir Henry Sidney . Contiguous are the ruins of the ...
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... building has wide square transom windows , and high pointed gables . Over the portal is a niche with the following inscrip- tion , under the arms of England and France : - ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO QVINGENTESI- MO OCTAGESIMO COMPLETO , ANNO ...
... building has wide square transom windows , and high pointed gables . Over the portal is a niche with the following inscrip- tion , under the arms of England and France : - ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO QVINGENTESI- MO OCTAGESIMO COMPLETO , ANNO ...
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... building was erected . * There remains now neither roof nor floor ; so totally dilapidated is the once elegant saloon , where the splendid scene of Comus was first exhibited , where chival- ry exhausted her choicest stores , both of ...
... building was erected . * There remains now neither roof nor floor ; so totally dilapidated is the once elegant saloon , where the splendid scene of Comus was first exhibited , where chival- ry exhausted her choicest stores , both of ...
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... building with window and doorway of the early Norman pe- riod ; this is part of the Chapel , of which the nave only is standing . There is a beautiful arch still remaining , but the choir with which it com- municated is entirely ...
... building with window and doorway of the early Norman pe- riod ; this is part of the Chapel , of which the nave only is standing . There is a beautiful arch still remaining , but the choir with which it com- municated is entirely ...
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Page 99 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 118 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 111 - Let your first action be the lifting up of your mind to Almighty God, by hearty prayer ; and feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer, with continual meditation and thinking of Him to whom you pray, and of the matter for which you pray.
Page 112 - Apply your study to such hours as your discreet master doth assign you, earnestly; and the time, I know, he will so limit as shall be both sufficient for your learning and safe for your health. And mark the sense and the matter of that you read as...
Page 112 - Be courteous of gesture, and affable to all men, with diversity of reverence, according to the dignity of the person. There is nothing that winneth so much, with so little cost.
Page 85 - ... nation should have a right to English liberties and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties — the grant of their own property — seemed a thing so incongruous that, eight years after, that is, in the thirty-fifth...
Page 112 - It will increase your force, and enlarge your breath. Delight to be cleanly as well in all parts of your body as in your garments. It shall make you grateful in each company ; and, otherwise, loathsome.
Page 143 - O'er Teme's luxuriant vale, Thy moss-grown halls, thy precincts drear, To musing Fancy's pensive ear, Unfold a varied tale. When terror stalk'd the prostrate land With savage Cambria's ruthless band, Beneath thy frowning shade.
Page 84 - The march of the human mind is slow. Sir, it was not until after two hundred years discovered that, by an eternal law, Providence had decreed vexation to violence, and poverty to rapine.
Page 30 - The too late re..! pentance pentance of this abandoned woman drove her to the madness of desperation, and in her frenzy she destroyed herself. The following curious account in Leland's Collectanea ; Tom. 1. p. 231, refers to this period. Thinges excerptid oute of an old Englisch boke yn ryme of the Gestes of Guarine and his sunnes.