The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 531867 |
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... seems , women had contracted of resorting openly to the monasteries for the purpose of receiving instruction . This practice he em- phatically condemns : some of his lines , indeed , are remarkably ungallant ; but he is induced , from ...
... seems , women had contracted of resorting openly to the monasteries for the purpose of receiving instruction . This practice he em- phatically condemns : some of his lines , indeed , are remarkably ungallant ; but he is induced , from ...
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... seems to have been a mere translation . Yet these are faults that might readily have been forgiven , had it contained any fragments of the true epic gold . Nevertheless , as an example of the increase of secular poetry , it is well ...
... seems to have been a mere translation . Yet these are faults that might readily have been forgiven , had it contained any fragments of the true epic gold . Nevertheless , as an example of the increase of secular poetry , it is well ...
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... seems , women had contracted of resorting openly to the monasteries for the purpose of receiving instruction . This practice he em- phatically condemns : some of his lines , indeed , are remarkably ungallant ; but he is induced , from ...
... seems , women had contracted of resorting openly to the monasteries for the purpose of receiving instruction . This practice he em- phatically condemns : some of his lines , indeed , are remarkably ungallant ; but he is induced , from ...
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... seems to have been a mere translation . Yet these are faults that might readily have been forgiven , had it contained any fragments of the true epic gold . Nevertheless , as an example of the increase of secular poetry , it is well ...
... seems to have been a mere translation . Yet these are faults that might readily have been forgiven , had it contained any fragments of the true epic gold . Nevertheless , as an example of the increase of secular poetry , it is well ...
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... seems to indicate a double origin . The three sisters must have come from classical anti- quity , while the custom itself was common among both the Teutonic and Scandinavian nations , and prevailed , as every one knows , among ourselves ...
... seems to indicate a double origin . The three sisters must have come from classical anti- quity , while the custom itself was common among both the Teutonic and Scandinavian nations , and prevailed , as every one knows , among ourselves ...
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Page 333 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first sight if the bird be flown; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown.
Page 329 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 333 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear...
Page 60 - Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Page 331 - O, thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires, By all the eagle in thee, all the dove, By all thy lives and deaths of love, By thy large draughts of intellectual day...
Page 327 - 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 52 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Page 245 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 387 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Page 328 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.