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... seen to return . It was also believed that , after he dreed his weird ( fulfilled his destiny ) , he would again revisit the earth . In none of the prophecies attributed to him is it assumed that he is himself the narrator , and from ...
... seen to return . It was also believed that , after he dreed his weird ( fulfilled his destiny ) , he would again revisit the earth . In none of the prophecies attributed to him is it assumed that he is himself the narrator , and from ...
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... seen it as made , in writ- ing , or have heard Thomas himself re- cite it by no means an impossibility , as he became a monk in 1288 , eight years before the death of Thomas . But the principal difficulty lies in the manner in which the ...
... seen it as made , in writ- ing , or have heard Thomas himself re- cite it by no means an impossibility , as he became a monk in 1288 , eight years before the death of Thomas . But the principal difficulty lies in the manner in which the ...
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... seen by Ysonde of the White Hand , who knows by the token that her rival is on board . She informs Tris- trem that the vessel is in sight , whereupon he asks her the colour of the sail . She tells him black ; on which , concluding that ...
... seen by Ysonde of the White Hand , who knows by the token that her rival is on board . She informs Tris- trem that the vessel is in sight , whereupon he asks her the colour of the sail . She tells him black ; on which , concluding that ...
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... seen . Sir Ralph , supposing him his opponent , attacks him at full speed , and in the first encounter both their horses are killed , and their spears splin- tered over their heads . They then fight for an hour on foot , when Sir ...
... seen . Sir Ralph , supposing him his opponent , attacks him at full speed , and in the first encounter both their horses are killed , and their spears splin- tered over their heads . They then fight for an hour on foot , when Sir ...
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... seen in the specimens which follow : - PREFACE TO THE BRUCE . [ Modernised in spelling . ] Stories to read are delitable , Suppose that they be nought but fable : Then should stories that soothfast were , And they were said on gude ...
... seen in the specimens which follow : - PREFACE TO THE BRUCE . [ Modernised in spelling . ] Stories to read are delitable , Suppose that they be nought but fable : Then should stories that soothfast were , And they were said on gude ...
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Page 455 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 729 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 696 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend.
Page 541 - Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ! Checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown ! ii.
Page 455 - Ye woodlands all, awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves ! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds, sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the night His praise.
Page 455 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre.
Page 459 - In lowly dale, fast by a river's side, With woody hill o'er hill encompassed round, A most enchanting wizard did abide, Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found.
Page 388 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Page 455 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year ; And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that lives.
Page 455 - Th' impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound...