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... close this Preface without recording here some grateful , even if inadequate , mention of the painstaking and generous assistance I have received , while this book has been passing through the press , from my friend and associate , Pro ...
... close this Preface without recording here some grateful , even if inadequate , mention of the painstaking and generous assistance I have received , while this book has been passing through the press , from my friend and associate , Pro ...
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... close bonds of hell . Hem me their prisoner . ' " Cadmon , when he has thus told the story of creation and the fall of man , follows the Scripture story to the flood , and repre- sents with simple words the rush of waters , and the ark ...
... close bonds of hell . Hem me their prisoner . ' " Cadmon , when he has thus told the story of creation and the fall of man , follows the Scripture story to the flood , and repre- sents with simple words the rush of waters , and the ark ...
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... close . Meanwhile Denmark , Sweden , and Norway had grown also into compact powers ; and in the reign of Ethelred the Unready England was not merely disturbed by the Danes settled on her shores , but had to face their power as invaders ...
... close . Meanwhile Denmark , Sweden , and Norway had grown also into compact powers ; and in the reign of Ethelred the Unready England was not merely disturbed by the Danes settled on her shores , but had to face their power as invaders ...
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... close of the period , during the four centuries of First English literature , all English thought written in English may be said to have come down to us in one language as fixed as that which we now speak . But , during the three ...
... close of the period , during the four centuries of First English literature , all English thought written in English may be said to have come down to us in one language as fixed as that which we now speak . But , during the three ...
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... close of book ii . , giving the third book to William the Conqueror , the fourth to William Rufus , and the fifth to Henry I. , as far as the twen- tieth year of his reign . Under a separate title , " Historia No- vella " ( " Modern ...
... close of book ii . , giving the third book to William the Conqueror , the fourth to William Rufus , and the fifth to Henry I. , as far as the twen- tieth year of his reign . Under a separate title , " Historia No- vella " ( " Modern ...
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Page 384 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 473 - The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
Page 322 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 519 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 330 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 356 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 527 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease...
Page 268 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Page 288 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm! Nature herself was proud of his designs And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Page 564 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself.