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... rules the onward course of truth and right , so ordered things that the foundations of our literature should be thus laid in the simple setting forth of our relations to God in trust , and love , and duty ; although this may not include ...
... rules the onward course of truth and right , so ordered things that the foundations of our literature should be thus laid in the simple setting forth of our relations to God in trust , and love , and duty ; although this may not include ...
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... rule in the land , his people wished that he should marry ; and it happened that Arthur had seen a lady who he thought was the fairest lady living , and whom he loved above all . This was Guenever , the daughter of King Leodegrance of ...
... rule in the land , his people wished that he should marry ; and it happened that Arthur had seen a lady who he thought was the fairest lady living , and whom he loved above all . This was Guenever , the daughter of King Leodegrance of ...
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... , and no lessening of his firm faith that God rules all things in the wisest love . * Supposing him to have been born in 1328 , the date given on his tomb . In 1399 John of Gaunt died , and the same 44 THE STORY OF ENGLISH Literature .
... , and no lessening of his firm faith that God rules all things in the wisest love . * Supposing him to have been born in 1328 , the date given on his tomb . In 1399 John of Gaunt died , and the same 44 THE STORY OF ENGLISH Literature .
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... rule , to kings quite as much as to the Pope ; but each man's conscience must be subject to God alone . The wealth of the Church belonged to God and the people of England , and might be used in any way for God's service and the good of ...
... rule , to kings quite as much as to the Pope ; but each man's conscience must be subject to God alone . The wealth of the Church belonged to God and the people of England , and might be used in any way for God's service and the good of ...
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... rule of our lives , and not self - interest . " Then the dreamer asks the lady how he may know Truth from Falsehood . She bids him look on his left hand , and there he will see " Falseness and Flattery and fickle - tongued Liar . " He ...
... rule of our lives , and not self - interest . " Then the dreamer asks the lady how he may know Truth from Falsehood . She bids him look on his left hand , and there he will see " Falseness and Flattery and fickle - tongued Liar . " He ...
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Page 249 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 244 - Unsavoury in the enjoyment of itself ; If you let slip time, like a neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languished head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown. In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool.
Page 263 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Page 243 - Yea, even that which Mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness...
Page 248 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 287 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love, with fear, the only God ; to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 342 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
Page 220 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. » We have short time to stay as you; We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 466 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 486 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.