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... facts practically exhaust our certain knowledge . His father was related to that family of Spensers from which the vic- tor of Blenheim sprung . " The nobility of the Spensers , " wrote Gibbon , " has been illustrated and enriched by ...
... facts practically exhaust our certain knowledge . His father was related to that family of Spensers from which the vic- tor of Blenheim sprung . " The nobility of the Spensers , " wrote Gibbon , " has been illustrated and enriched by ...
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... fact , then , that her name was Eliz- abeth , is all that Spenser has recorded of his mother . But of both father and mother some little additional information has been offered in recent years . While investigating the manu- scripts of ...
... fact , then , that her name was Eliz- abeth , is all that Spenser has recorded of his mother . But of both father and mother some little additional information has been offered in recent years . While investigating the manu- scripts of ...
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... facts have to be taken for granted , namely , that the sonnet was written in 1593 , and that its " fourty " years were forty years , rather than a lesser or greater period ex- pressed in even numbers for poetic purposes . Prior to the ...
... facts have to be taken for granted , namely , that the sonnet was written in 1593 , and that its " fourty " years were forty years , rather than a lesser or greater period ex- pressed in even numbers for poetic purposes . Prior to the ...
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... between 11 and 1 o'clock ; three times each day the pupils , " kneeling on their knees , ” were to say the prayers appointed " with due tract and paus- ing . " Nor are these particulars the only facts 8 LITERARY BY - PATHS.
... between 11 and 1 o'clock ; three times each day the pupils , " kneeling on their knees , ” were to say the prayers appointed " with due tract and paus- ing . " Nor are these particulars the only facts 8 LITERARY BY - PATHS.
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Henry Charles Shelley. ing . " Nor are these particulars the only facts from which the imagination can weave its picture of the boy Spenser in school . The head - master in Spenser's time , and for many years after , was Dr. Richard ...
Henry Charles Shelley. ing . " Nor are these particulars the only facts from which the imagination can weave its picture of the boy Spenser in school . The head - master in Spenser's time , and for many years after , was Dr. Richard ...
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Page 104 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 162 - His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.
Page 152 - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his" failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
Page 162 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 160 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Page 263 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 112 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 36 - To the most mightie and magnificent Empresse Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
Page 181 - This kind of life - the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave - brought me to my sixteenth year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme.
Page 190 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O