The History of the Anglo-Saxons: Comprising the History of England from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, Volumes 1-2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1823 - Anglo-Saxons |
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... adds , “ it is said , that they live in a dark , woody country , where the sun is seldom seen , from their many lofty and spreading trees , which reach into the interior as far as the Her- cynian , forest . " But whether their progress ...
... adds , “ it is said , that they live in a dark , woody country , where the sun is seldom seen , from their many lofty and spreading trees , which reach into the interior as far as the Her- cynian , forest . " But whether their progress ...
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... add the name of their chieftain , and that a division of the same people settled in Armorica . But if the memory of Lygdamis , who led the Kimmerian emi- gration to Asia , and of Brennus , who marched with the Kelts against Greece ...
... add the name of their chieftain , and that a division of the same people settled in Armorica . But if the memory of Lygdamis , who led the Kimmerian emi- gration to Asia , and of Brennus , who marched with the Kelts against Greece ...
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... adds , that they stained their altars with the blood of their captives ; and consulted their gods by the fibres of men . mentions also , that before their destruction of the colony at Camelodunum , " Women , agitated with the prophetic ...
... adds , that they stained their altars with the blood of their captives ; and consulted their gods by the fibres of men . mentions also , that before their destruction of the colony at Camelodunum , " Women , agitated with the prophetic ...
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... adds his own belief , that the Britons were more north than Keltica , by fifteen hun- dred stadia . In the time of Strabo the Kelta were not more north than France . Hipparchus lived one hundred and fifty years before Strabo , and ...
... adds his own belief , that the Britons were more north than Keltica , by fifteen hun- dred stadia . In the time of Strabo the Kelta were not more north than France . Hipparchus lived one hundred and fifty years before Strabo , and ...
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... 3. Solinus notices a tradition of Ulysses having reached a bay in Caledonia ; " which , " he adds , " an altar with a Greek inscription shows , " c . 22. A Trojan colony is stated IV . Ir was the ambition of Cæsar , who 62 HISTORY OF THE.
... 3. Solinus notices a tradition of Ulysses having reached a bay in Caledonia ; " which , " he adds , " an altar with a Greek inscription shows , " c . 22. A Trojan colony is stated IV . Ir was the ambition of Cæsar , who 62 HISTORY OF THE.
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Page 448 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these, Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart, is joy.
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Page 448 - When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Page 46 - O THOU, whose power o'er moving worlds presides ! Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides ! On darkling man, in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine.
Page 447 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
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Page 447 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 447 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...