Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and ModernCharles Dudley Warner International Society, 1897 - Literature |
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Page 9361
... England , coming later into the hands of Charles II . , by whom it was given to its present custodian . The manuscript is a fine example of the Irish school of illuminating , showing the characteristic style of treating the human and ...
... England , coming later into the hands of Charles II . , by whom it was given to its present custodian . The manuscript is a fine example of the Irish school of illuminating , showing the characteristic style of treating the human and ...
Page 9367
... England ' ) The Difficulty of Travel in England , 1685 ( same ) The Highwayman ( same ) The Delusion of Overrating the Happiness of our Ances- tors ( same ) The Puritan ( Essay on John Milton ' ) Spain under Philip II . ( Essay on Lord ...
... England ' ) The Difficulty of Travel in England , 1685 ( same ) The Highwayman ( same ) The Delusion of Overrating the Happiness of our Ances- tors ( same ) The Puritan ( Essay on John Milton ' ) Spain under Philip II . ( Essay on Lord ...
Page 9383
... England for the forty years preceding our Revolution , as is to be found in the essays on Lord Chatham . In each case the image of the man whose name stands at the head of the essay is blurred and indistinct . We are told of the trial ...
... England for the forty years preceding our Revolution , as is to be found in the essays on Lord Chatham . In each case the image of the man whose name stands at the head of the essay is blurred and indistinct . We are told of the trial ...
Page 9385
... England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living . ' The idea of such a narrative had long been in his mind ; but it was not till 1841 that he began seriously to write ...
... England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living . ' The idea of such a narrative had long been in his mind ; but it was not till 1841 that he began seriously to write ...
Page 9386
... England . ' No historian who has yet written has shown such familiarity with the facts of English history , no matter what the subject in hand may be : the extinction of villeinage , the Bloody Assizes , the appearance of the newspaper ...
... England . ' No historian who has yet written has shown such familiarity with the facts of English history , no matter what the subject in hand may be : the extinction of villeinage , the Bloody Assizes , the appearance of the newspaper ...
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Page 9600 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Page 9770 - When we have run our passion's heat, Love hither makes his best retreat. The Gods, that mortal beauty chase, Still in a tree did end their race; Apollo hunted Daphne so, Only that she might laurel grow; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed.
Page 9760 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
Page 9411 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 9769 - How vainly men themselves amaze. To win the palm, the oak, or bays: And their incessant labors see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all the flowers and trees do close, To weave the garlands of repose.
Page 9424 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Page 9439 - And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand! And as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...
Page 9722 - Unto some brutish beast. All beasts are happy, For when they die Their souls are soon dissolved in elements, But mine must live still to be plagued in hell.
Page 9437 - quoth false Sextus, " Will not the villain drown? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town !" " Heaven help him ! " quoth Lars Porsena, "And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.
Page 9721 - Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!