Hunter's TractsJ.R. Smith, 1850 |
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... formed for perpetual friendship and the unceasing inter- change of kind offices , but too long divided , formerly by uncertain principles of regal succession , and latterly by mistaken views of policy and interest . And that no more may ...
... formed for perpetual friendship and the unceasing inter- change of kind offices , but too long divided , formerly by uncertain principles of regal succession , and latterly by mistaken views of policy and interest . And that no more may ...
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... forming a complete list of those persons who are to be regarded as the captains of the English host . Many , however , have perished , and others are faded , torn , and otherwise injured , through the cruel neglect of persons to whom ...
... forming a complete list of those persons who are to be regarded as the captains of the English host . Many , however , have perished , and others are faded , torn , and otherwise injured , through the cruel neglect of persons to whom ...
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... formed . But I have also made use of a few other records , of a miscellaneous character , such as notices of the issue of wine from the king's stores , to the sick at Harfleur ; and a roll of melancholy interest , containing about a ...
... formed . But I have also made use of a few other records , of a miscellaneous character , such as notices of the issue of wine from the king's stores , to the sick at Harfleur ; and a roll of melancholy interest , containing about a ...
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... formed his retinue . As to himself , he was among the sick at Harfleur , and had the king's license to return to England on the 28th of September . He did return , and we may add , from Dugdale ( Baronage , p . 320 ) , that he made his ...
... formed his retinue . As to himself , he was among the sick at Harfleur , and had the king's license to return to England on the 28th of September . He did return , and we may add , from Dugdale ( Baronage , p . 320 ) , that he made his ...
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... formed a just conception of his own powers , when he contented himself with " Melody's unmeaning notes , with- out the sense of words . " Mr. Todd , without any show of probability , would relieve the memory of the elder Milton from the ...
... formed a just conception of his own powers , when he contented himself with " Melody's unmeaning notes , with- out the sense of words . " Mr. Todd , without any show of probability , would relieve the memory of the elder Milton from the ...
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Page 56 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 67 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Page 54 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed...
Page 59 - The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page 61 - The eternal regions : Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Page 66 - But men can ask, so that the invisible things of God are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; but by love of them, they are made subject unto them: and subjects cannot judge.
Page 56 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 48 - O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood: But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea ; He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?
Page 54 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 14 - I have seen not our own imaginative poet cause to fear that future ages will desire to summon him from his place of rest, as Milton longed ' To call up him who left half told The story of Cambuscan bold.