The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, 2. köideLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1836 |
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... give him these trifles as if he was un- willing to give him greater things . On Asser's next visit , the king gave him Exeter , with all the parishes belonging to it in Saxony and Cornwall , besides innumerable daily gifts of all sorts ...
... give him these trifles as if he was un- willing to give him greater things . On Asser's next visit , the king gave him Exeter , with all the parishes belonging to it in Saxony and Cornwall , besides innumerable daily gifts of all sorts ...
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... give him his wife again . " When he came there , that hell - hound , whose name was Cerverus , came against him . He had three heads , but he be- gan to sport with his tail , and to play with him for his harping . There was also a very ...
... give him his wife again . " When he came there , that hell - hound , whose name was Cerverus , came against him . He had three heads , but he be- gan to sport with his tail , and to play with him for his harping . There was also a very ...
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... give the man his companion , his wife , bought by his song . ' But a law restricted the gift , that while he should leave Tartarus he should not bend back his eyes . Who shall give a law to lovers ? Love is a greater law to itself ...
... give the man his companion , his wife , bought by his song . ' But a law restricted the gift , that while he should leave Tartarus he should not bend back his eyes . Who shall give a law to lovers ? Love is a greater law to itself ...
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... gives it , than he who gathereth it , or plunders it from others . So riches are more reputable and estimable when men give them , than they are when men gather and hold them . " Hence covetousness maketh the avaricious odious both to ...
... gives it , than he who gathereth it , or plunders it from others . So riches are more reputable and estimable when men give them , than they are when men gather and hold them . " Hence covetousness maketh the avaricious odious both to ...
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... give man any help , nor take any away.47 Adverse fortune is the true happiness , though one does not think so ; for it is to be depended upon , and always promises what is true . " 48 66 BOETIUS remarks : - Departing fortune takes away ...
... give man any help , nor take any away.47 Adverse fortune is the true happiness , though one does not think so ; for it is to be depended upon , and always promises what is true . " 48 66 BOETIUS remarks : - Departing fortune takes away ...
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Page 425 - 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; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. 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...
Page 425 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 426 - When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him?
Page 426 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well ? the old man of whom ye spake ; is he yet alive ? And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive : and they bowed down their heads and made obeisance.
Page 428 - Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. • How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot : Eternal sun-shine of the spotless mind ! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd ; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep ; ' Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep ;' Desires composed, affections ever even ; Tears that delight,' and sighs that waft to heav'n.
Page 426 - And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
Page 22 - O THOU, whose power o'er moving worlds presides ! Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides ! On darkling man, in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine.
Page 427 - God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love.
Page 426 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. — The rolling year Is full of thee.
Page 83 - He was one of the first men in that country, yet he had not more than twenty horned cattle, and twenty sheep, and twenty swine, and the little that he ploughed he ploughed with horses. But their wealth consists for the most part in the rent paid them by the Fins. That rent is in skins of animals, and birds' feathers, and whalebone, and in ship-ropes made of whales