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... ancient civilization and literature , and the rise of those of modern times . It is a thing apart , like the Irish or the Icelandic literature , and requires to be studied in connection with the fossil remains of other extinct cognate ...
... ancient civilization and literature , and the rise of those of modern times . It is a thing apart , like the Irish or the Icelandic literature , and requires to be studied in connection with the fossil remains of other extinct cognate ...
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... ancient world tended to enkindle and to sustain . The Angles of Northumbria received Christianity , not from Rome , but from Iona , the island - monastery of the Culdees , or servants of God , ' founded by Columba , an Irish saint , in ...
... ancient world tended to enkindle and to sustain . The Angles of Northumbria received Christianity , not from Rome , but from Iona , the island - monastery of the Culdees , or servants of God , ' founded by Columba , an Irish saint , in ...
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... ancient seats against the hordes of Attila : 1 heardum sweordumn Ymb Wistlá - wudu wergen sceoldon Ealdne edel - stol Etlan leodum . Again , the nations under the sway of the empire are designated by the singular name of Rum - walas ...
... ancient seats against the hordes of Attila : 1 heardum sweordumn Ymb Wistlá - wudu wergen sceoldon Ealdne edel - stol Etlan leodum . Again , the nations under the sway of the empire are designated by the singular name of Rum - walas ...
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... ancient Angle poems , -which cut right across the notion of Beowulf's being a translation into Anglo - Saxon of a modern type . The theory of Kemble , therefore , seems to me more satisfactory than that of Mr. Thorpe . Cadmon's ...
... ancient Angle poems , -which cut right across the notion of Beowulf's being a translation into Anglo - Saxon of a modern type . The theory of Kemble , therefore , seems to me more satisfactory than that of Mr. Thorpe . Cadmon's ...
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... ancient times , of which the one preserved to us is by an author absolutely unknown , while the other has utterly perished , than to admit that time has spared , though in a sadly mutilated condition , the work , once widely and justly ...
... ancient times , of which the one preserved to us is by an author absolutely unknown , while the other has utterly perished , than to admit that time has spared , though in a sadly mutilated condition , the work , once widely and justly ...
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Page 466 - Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine ; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee...
Page 459 - 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 387 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 358 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 482 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The Stars peep behind her and peer. And I laugh to see them whirl and flee Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent, — Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the moon and these.
Page 289 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Page 253 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 454 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 432 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 389 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.