The Academy, Volume 25J. Murray, 1884 - English literature |
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... existence of a really national sovereignty before the days of Dun- stan . " The effort after such a sovereignty had hardly begun when it was suddenly broken by the coming of the Danes . " And this was the beginning of a savage strife ...
... existence of a really national sovereignty before the days of Dun- stan . " The effort after such a sovereignty had hardly begun when it was suddenly broken by the coming of the Danes . " And this was the beginning of a savage strife ...
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... existence , " which at that time was with- sprang suddenly out an equal or a rival in the Western world . We owe to Alfred the existence of our national chronicle in its present form , and with it our history " became the heritage of ...
... existence , " which at that time was with- sprang suddenly out an equal or a rival in the Western world . We owe to Alfred the existence of our national chronicle in its present form , and with it our history " became the heritage of ...
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... existence . Dr. Hodgson was born in Edinburgh in 1815 , and died of angina pectoris in Brussels in the autumn of 1880. At the time of his But he has not fulfilled his own desire " to build up an intellectual portrait in mosaic of the ...
... existence . Dr. Hodgson was born in Edinburgh in 1815 , and died of angina pectoris in Brussels in the autumn of 1880. At the time of his But he has not fulfilled his own desire " to build up an intellectual portrait in mosaic of the ...
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... existence is made plain and open to her , I shall not say . Mrs. Oli- phant's own work is too good , too full , too complete and rich , to be made the subject of compression and an impertinent précis . Besides , Mr. Lee Benedict's new ...
... existence is made plain and open to her , I shall not say . Mrs. Oli- phant's own work is too good , too full , too complete and rich , to be made the subject of compression and an impertinent précis . Besides , Mr. Lee Benedict's new ...
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... existence ; and , to judge from the variety of its contents , we should say that the experiment of the pub- lisher in founding it has met with the success it deserved . Four of its eight articles , on Irish Language , ' " " " The " M ...
... existence ; and , to judge from the variety of its contents , we should say that the experiment of the pub- lisher in founding it has met with the success it deserved . Four of its eight articles , on Irish Language , ' " " " The " M ...
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Page 38 - To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition ; but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win : thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries, Thus thou must do, if thou have it: And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
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Page 80 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take: The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Page 161 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
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