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... peninsula of Jutland ( now a province of Denmark ) , and from Schles- wick and Holstein . They were of the same race as the Franks , Danes , Norwegians , and the Northmen , who were afterwards called Nor- mans . 9. 4.
... peninsula of Jutland ( now a province of Denmark ) , and from Schles- wick and Holstein . They were of the same race as the Franks , Danes , Norwegians , and the Northmen , who were afterwards called Nor- mans . 9. 4.
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Abel S. Clark. Northmen , who were afterwards called Nor- mans . 9. The Earliest Anglo - Saxon Literature . Our Anglo - Saxon ancestors had a literature both of poetry and prose while they still lived in their marshy home in Jutland and ...
Abel S. Clark. Northmen , who were afterwards called Nor- mans . 9. The Earliest Anglo - Saxon Literature . Our Anglo - Saxon ancestors had a literature both of poetry and prose while they still lived in their marshy home in Jutland and ...
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... afterwards to feast on the white flesh , and the greedy battle - hawk , and the grey beast , the wolf , in the wood . " The second of these war poems contained 690 lines . It gives the story of the death of Brith- noth of Northumbria ...
... afterwards to feast on the white flesh , and the greedy battle - hawk , and the grey beast , the wolf , in the wood . " The second of these war poems contained 690 lines . It gives the story of the death of Brith- noth of Northumbria ...
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... afterwards Henry VIII , became a warm advocate of the Reformation . His poem , Why come ye not to Court ? was a fierce satire on Cardinal Wolsey , who was at one time his patron , but afterwards became his bitter enemy . Skelton's Book ...
... afterwards Henry VIII , became a warm advocate of the Reformation . His poem , Why come ye not to Court ? was a fierce satire on Cardinal Wolsey , who was at one time his patron , but afterwards became his bitter enemy . Skelton's Book ...
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... afterward proved to be true . the fall of Wolsey , More was appointed Lord Chancellor . When the King wanted to obtain a divorce from Cath- arine of Aragon , that he might marry Anne Boleyn , More refused to give his authority for it ...
... afterward proved to be true . the fall of Wolsey , More was appointed Lord Chancellor . When the King wanted to obtain a divorce from Cath- arine of Aragon , that he might marry Anne Boleyn , More refused to give his authority for it ...
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Page 66 - AND is there care in heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 82 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
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Page 83 - ... tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Page 82 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon.
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Page 124 - And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind!
Page 124 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Page 83 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Page 82 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.