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... early remains of the North . -PALGRAVE , FRANCIS , 1832 , Observa- tions on the History of Cadmon , Archaeo- logia , vol . 24 , p . 343 . Cadmon , of whom we have heard so much , was one of those gifted men , who have stamped deeply and ...
... early remains of the North . -PALGRAVE , FRANCIS , 1832 , Observa- tions on the History of Cadmon , Archaeo- logia , vol . 24 , p . 343 . Cadmon , of whom we have heard so much , was one of those gifted men , who have stamped deeply and ...
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... early liter- ature ; the reflections are often common- place . The style of Milton is no doubt unapproachable ; but the mere story , as told by Cædmon , has been less hampered by theological difficulties , and is freer and grander than ...
... early liter- ature ; the reflections are often common- place . The style of Milton is no doubt unapproachable ; but the mere story , as told by Cædmon , has been less hampered by theological difficulties , and is freer and grander than ...
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... Early and Middle Ages , vol . 1 , p . 302 . From the first the " Ecclesiastical His- tory " of Bede has always been regarded as a work of the highest interest . After the lapse of several centuries it was still looked upon as the model ...
... Early and Middle Ages , vol . 1 , p . 302 . From the first the " Ecclesiastical His- tory " of Bede has always been regarded as a work of the highest interest . After the lapse of several centuries it was still looked upon as the model ...
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... early in the eighth century , surpasses every other name of our ancient literary annals ; and , though little more than a diligent compiler from older writers , may perhaps be reckoned superior to any man whom the world ( so low had the ...
... early in the eighth century , surpasses every other name of our ancient literary annals ; and , though little more than a diligent compiler from older writers , may perhaps be reckoned superior to any man whom the world ( so low had the ...
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... early poets , Cædmon's name is still the most familiar perhaps because he was the first , and because his name and history were embalmed in the pages of the Venerable Bede and other writers . But a greater poet than Cædmon was to follow ...
... early poets , Cædmon's name is still the most familiar perhaps because he was the first , and because his name and history were embalmed in the pages of the Venerable Bede and other writers . But a greater poet than Cædmon was to follow ...
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Page 468 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 561 - SHAKESPEARE Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwellingplace, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Page 552 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of Joy; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 480 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 7 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book. kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 377 - The generall end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 548 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 522 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Page 547 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends, fyc.
Page 548 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...