The history of the Anglo-Saxons, 2. köideBaudry, 1840 |
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... wish for further knowledge ; and began a taste for intellectual compositions . The muses have in every age had these effects . Their lays have always been found to be most captivating and most exciting to the young mind . They are the ...
... wish for further knowledge ; and began a taste for intellectual compositions . The muses have in every age had these effects . Their lays have always been found to be most captivating and most exciting to the young mind . They are the ...
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... wish ( 1 ) . Alfred's self- When Alfred began his own education , he had not education . only to find the stimulus in himself , to cherish it in opposition to the prejudices and practice of his countrymen , and to search out his own ...
... wish ( 1 ) . Alfred's self- When Alfred began his own education , he had not education . only to find the stimulus in himself , to cherish it in opposition to the prejudices and practice of his countrymen , and to search out his own ...
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... wish thee to know that it comes very often into my mind what wise men there were in England , both laymen and ecclesiastics , and how happy those times were to England ! how the kings , who then had the government of the peo- ple ...
... wish thee to know that it comes very often into my mind what wise men there were in England , both laymen and ecclesiastics , and how happy those times were to England ! how the kings , who then had the government of the peo- ple ...
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... wish to have it ( 1 ) . ” The king contrasts with this account the state of England in his time . " So clean was it fallen out of England , that there are very few on this side of the Humber who understand to say their prayers in ...
... wish to have it ( 1 ) . ” The king contrasts with this account the state of England in his time . " So clean was it fallen out of England , that there are very few on this side of the Humber who understand to say their prayers in ...
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... wish that they should always be at these places , unless the bishops should desire to have it with them , or to lend it any where , or to write another from it . " Ibid . p . 86. What the æstel meant that was to be so costly is not ...
... wish that they should always be at these places , unless the bishops should desire to have it with them , or to lend it any where , or to write another from it . " Ibid . p . 86. What the æstel meant that was to be so costly is not ...
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Page 271 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Page 269 - And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. 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.
Page 270 - 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? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Page 269 - 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 270 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 270 - Every man being conscious to himself that he thinks; and that which his mind is applied about whilst thinking being the IDEAS that are there, it is past doubt that men have in their minds several ideas, — such as are those expressed by the words whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others: it is in the first place then to be inquired, HOW HE COMES BY THEM?
Page 269 - And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
Page 271 - In the second century of the Christian Era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
Page 271 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Page 269 - 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...