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Page 43
... rise on the deep , when dark tumult embroils the night . Pleasant are their beams aloft , as stately they ascend the skies . Nor Odin forgot , in aught , the maid . Her form scarce equalled her lofty mind . Awe moved around her stately ...
... rise on the deep , when dark tumult embroils the night . Pleasant are their beams aloft , as stately they ascend the skies . Nor Odin forgot , in aught , the maid . Her form scarce equalled her lofty mind . Awe moved around her stately ...
Page 44
... . White was her arm , as Sevo's lofty snow , Her bosom fairer than the waves below When heaving to the winds . eyes Her radiant Like two bright stars , exulting as they rise , O'er the dark tumult of a stormy night , And 44 PREFACE .
... . White was her arm , as Sevo's lofty snow , Her bosom fairer than the waves below When heaving to the winds . eyes Her radiant Like two bright stars , exulting as they rise , O'er the dark tumult of a stormy night , And 44 PREFACE .
Page 94
... - rative language owes its rise chiefly to two causes ; to the want of proper names for ob- jects , and to the influence of imagination and Both passion over the form of expression . these causes 94 CRITICAL . DISSERTATION.
... - rative language owes its rise chiefly to two causes ; to the want of proper names for ob- jects , and to the influence of imagination and Both passion over the form of expression . these causes 94 CRITICAL . DISSERTATION.
Page 97
... rise to the principal distinctions among nations ; and divert , into channels widely separated , that current of hu- man genius and manners , which descends ori- ginally from one spring . What we have been long accustomed to call the ...
... rise to the principal distinctions among nations ; and divert , into channels widely separated , that current of hu- man genius and manners , which descends ori- ginally from one spring . What we have been long accustomed to call the ...
Page 103
... rise in Britain , and passed from thence into Gaul ; so that they who aspired to be thorough masters of that learning were wont to resort to Britain . He adds , too , that such as were to be initiated among the druids , were obliged to ...
... rise in Britain , and passed from thence into Gaul ; so that they who aspired to be thorough masters of that learning were wont to resort to Britain . He adds , too , that such as were to be initiated among the druids , were obliged to ...
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