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... close to it , united by a line to mark close connection . By some such suggestive painting upon cotton cloth or aloe leaves did the frightened Mexicans , who dwelt on the coast of the great Gulf , convey to the inland towns the terrible ...
... close to it , united by a line to mark close connection . By some such suggestive painting upon cotton cloth or aloe leaves did the frightened Mexicans , who dwelt on the coast of the great Gulf , convey to the inland towns the terrible ...
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... close his famous History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , written - like nearly all his works - in Latin . Its style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn ...
... close his famous History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , written - like nearly all his works - in Latin . Its style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn ...
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... close of the twelfth century ( of which we have no evidence ) , they were pro- bably designed for the entertainment of the mere commonalty , to whom alone the French language was unknown . 3. In the thirteenth century were composed the ...
... close of the twelfth century ( of which we have no evidence ) , they were pro- bably designed for the entertainment of the mere commonalty , to whom alone the French language was unknown . 3. In the thirteenth century were composed the ...
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... close of the same year he was elected Master of Balliol College . Four years later , the Primate appointed him to the Wardenship of Canterbury Hall , in the room of the deposed Wodehall . Mendicant friars at that time swarmed all over ...
... close of the same year he was elected Master of Balliol College . Four years later , the Primate appointed him to the Wardenship of Canterbury Hall , in the room of the deposed Wodehall . Mendicant friars at that time swarmed all over ...
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... close by in the Abbey , where the dust of England's noblest dead is laid . The accession of Henry IV . brought good for- Chaucer's chequered life was such as to wear off all the little roughnesses and conceits of his earlier character ...
... close by in the Abbey , where the dust of England's noblest dead is laid . The accession of Henry IV . brought good for- Chaucer's chequered life was such as to wear off all the little roughnesses and conceits of his earlier character ...
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Page 149 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 209 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 378 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 324 - How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 391 - His steps are not upon thy paths — thy fields Are not a spoil for him — thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray, And howling, to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : there let him lay.
Page 149 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 378 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 350 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 211 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
Page 459 - The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years.