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... ladies , wrote countless pages of Latin prose and verse . The great subject of these Latin works was theology , as was natural from the circumstance that they were chiefly the productions of the cloister . ALDHELM . Most ancient of the ...
... ladies , wrote countless pages of Latin prose and verse . The great subject of these Latin works was theology , as was natural from the circumstance that they were chiefly the productions of the cloister . ALDHELM . Most ancient of the ...
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... ladies , grim giants dwelling in enchanted castles , misshapen dwarfs , fairies kindly and malevolent , dragons and earthdrakes , magicians with their potent wands , pass before us in a highly- coloured , much - distorted panorama ...
... ladies , grim giants dwelling in enchanted castles , misshapen dwarfs , fairies kindly and malevolent , dragons and earthdrakes , magicians with their potent wands , pass before us in a highly- coloured , much - distorted panorama ...
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... lady and the flowers she has been plucking in a garden , so as to bear upon the praises of the Virgin Mary . Richard I. is said to have composed several military poems * The word Brut is said to be derived either from the name of Brutus ...
... lady and the flowers she has been plucking in a garden , so as to bear upon the praises of the Virgin Mary . Richard I. is said to have composed several military poems * The word Brut is said to be derived either from the name of Brutus ...
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... ladies in a daunce upon the greene grasse ; the which being ended , they all kneele down , and do honour to the daisie , some to the flower , and some to the leafe . The mean- ing hereof is this : -They which honour the flower , a thing ...
... ladies in a daunce upon the greene grasse ; the which being ended , they all kneele down , and do honour to the daisie , some to the flower , and some to the leafe . The mean- ing hereof is this : -They which honour the flower , a thing ...
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... lady ; The ladies all in surcotes , that richely Purfiled were with many a rich stone , And every knight of green ware mantles on . Embrouded well so as the surcotes were , And everich had a chapelet on her hed , Which did right well ...
... lady ; The ladies all in surcotes , that richely Purfiled were with many a rich stone , And every knight of green ware mantles on . Embrouded well so as the surcotes were , And everich had a chapelet on her hed , Which did right well ...
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Page 312 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here.
Page 385 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 311 - His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay.
Page 374 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, ' And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Page 377 - I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Page 121 - Fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love : On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight : O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees : O'er ladies...
Page 169 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 284 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My lord, Your lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
Page 169 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
Page 169 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...