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... England , that can be traced back with certainty to the times of Paganism . We must not look to the dwellers on the muddy Elbe , or the inhabitants of the grassy plains of Holstein , for the teeming imagination which characterised the ...
... England , that can be traced back with certainty to the times of Paganism . We must not look to the dwellers on the muddy Elbe , or the inhabitants of the grassy plains of Holstein , for the teeming imagination which characterised the ...
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... England , but more especially those who are of gentle kind and at ease in their circumstances , may be grounded in letters , for they cannot profit in any pursuit until they are well able to read English . " With these views Alfred ...
... England , but more especially those who are of gentle kind and at ease in their circumstances , may be grounded in letters , for they cannot profit in any pursuit until they are well able to read English . " With these views Alfred ...
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... England , tended to develop this weak side - this proneness to ease . In their old dwelling - place they were at least stimulated by the necessity of con- tending with the unfruitfulness of nature and the en- croachments of the sea ; in ...
... England , tended to develop this weak side - this proneness to ease . In their old dwelling - place they were at least stimulated by the necessity of con- tending with the unfruitfulness of nature and the en- croachments of the sea ; in ...
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... England during this which we call the Norman period ; and this is a fact which we must learn to see in its true light , in order to understand aright the rise of English literature in the fourteenth cen- tury . Again , the intellectual ...
... England during this which we call the Norman period ; and this is a fact which we must learn to see in its true light , in order to understand aright the rise of English literature in the fourteenth cen- tury . Again , the intellectual ...
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... England , is considered by many the founder of the scholastic philosophy . At any rate , he seems to have been the first to apply , on a large scale , philosophy and its formulæ to the doctrines of religion . Yet , as he did not ...
... England , is considered by many the founder of the scholastic philosophy . At any rate , he seems to have been the first to apply , on a large scale , philosophy and its formulæ to the doctrines of religion . Yet , as he did not ...
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Page 338 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest. Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Page 320 - 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 304 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 255 - 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 331 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 164 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 338 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page 308 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 282 - Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Page 315 - 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.