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... England . The quasi - historical - poem and the quasi - fictional - history may be perused by an ordinary and unbiassed reader without his becoming in the slightest degree interested in , or attached to , the hero of either . In the ...
... England . The quasi - historical - poem and the quasi - fictional - history may be perused by an ordinary and unbiassed reader without his becoming in the slightest degree interested in , or attached to , the hero of either . In the ...
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... England for the advocacy of conservative or democratic doctrines . Mutatis nomini- bus de nobismet ipsis loquimur . Furthermore , in the treatment of ancient history by recent writers , a simulated enthusiasm dwells tediously upon the ...
... England for the advocacy of conservative or democratic doctrines . Mutatis nomini- bus de nobismet ipsis loquimur . Furthermore , in the treatment of ancient history by recent writers , a simulated enthusiasm dwells tediously upon the ...
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... England . The uni- formity thus induced over Europe by the prevalence of one race was further increased by the prevalence of one religion . For already the vital force of Christian zeal had communicated to these nations the Christian ...
... England . The uni- formity thus induced over Europe by the prevalence of one race was further increased by the prevalence of one religion . For already the vital force of Christian zeal had communicated to these nations the Christian ...
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... , Chaucer began to give his poems to the world . It was a time auspicious for English genius ; for just then a purely national spirit first animated England . While Normans and Saxons re- garded each 40 INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN.
... , Chaucer began to give his poems to the world . It was a time auspicious for English genius ; for just then a purely national spirit first animated England . While Normans and Saxons re- garded each 40 INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN.
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Afternoon lectures. animated England . While Normans and Saxons re- garded each other as conquerors and conquered , neither of them could create a literature . The Normans speaking the Northern French dialect , and despising the language ...
Afternoon lectures. animated England . While Normans and Saxons re- garded each other as conquerors and conquered , neither of them could create a literature . The Normans speaking the Northern French dialect , and despising the language ...
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Page 151 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Page 116 - At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 134 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.
Page 147 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 146 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Page 142 - Thou, therefore, that sittest in light and glory unapproachable, parent of angels and men ! next, thee I implore, omnipotent King, Redeemer of that lost remnant whose nature thou didst assume, ineffable and everlasting Love...
Page 116 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 136 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 151 - ... as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Page 138 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.