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... letters , already well advanced in years , but a devout convert from Paganism to the Christian faith , of which the new monastery was a beacon in all that dark neighborhood . One day he joined a festive party at the house of some ...
... letters , already well advanced in years , but a devout convert from Paganism to the Christian faith , of which the new monastery was a beacon in all that dark neighborhood . One day he joined a festive party at the house of some ...
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... letters and his Latin verse , chiefly in praise of chastity , survive ; but those English songs of his which were still on the lips of the people in King Alfred's day are lost to us . William of Malmes- bury has recorded , on King ...
... letters and his Latin verse , chiefly in praise of chastity , survive ; but those English songs of his which were still on the lips of the people in King Alfred's day are lost to us . William of Malmes- bury has recorded , on King ...
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... letter , and , in the second line of the pair , the chief word begins also with that letter , that is to say , if the alliteration is of consonants ; in the case of vowels the rule is reversed , -the chief words begin with vowels that ...
... letter , and , in the second line of the pair , the chief word begins also with that letter , that is to say , if the alliteration is of consonants ; in the case of vowels the rule is reversed , -the chief words begin with vowels that ...
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... letter into English , and I believe not many on the other side of the Humber either . They are so few , in- deed , that I cannot remember one south of the Thames when I began to reign . " Alfred re - established monasteries , and took ...
... letter into English , and I believe not many on the other side of the Humber either . They are so few , in- deed , that I cannot remember one south of the Thames when I began to reign . " Alfred re - established monasteries , and took ...
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... letters . English remained the language of the people , and its predomi- nance was sure . But there was no longer in the monasteries a cultivated class maintaining a standard of the language . The common people were not strict in care ...
... letters . English remained the language of the people , and its predomi- nance was sure . But there was no longer in the monasteries a cultivated class maintaining a standard of the language . The common people were not strict in care ...
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Page 384 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 473 - The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
Page 322 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 519 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 330 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 356 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 527 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease...
Page 268 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Page 288 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm! Nature herself was proud of his designs And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Page 564 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself.