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... fact of the knights being horse - back warriors . The character of chivalry , in its palmy state , may perhaps best be gathered from a glance at the leading features of the discipline to which its aspirants were subjected . The ranks of ...
... fact of the knights being horse - back warriors . The character of chivalry , in its palmy state , may perhaps best be gathered from a glance at the leading features of the discipline to which its aspirants were subjected . The ranks of ...
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... fact offer itself . That Palestine , the scene of such transcendant manifestations of the divine power and purposes , should be an object of reverence to Christians , was natural enough . Accordingly , from the recognition of ...
... fact offer itself . That Palestine , the scene of such transcendant manifestations of the divine power and purposes , should be an object of reverence to Christians , was natural enough . Accordingly , from the recognition of ...
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... facts , in support of this idea , which may claim some additional attention from the American reader , as being connected with the first settlement of Virginia . At the time when Shakspeare was in the fulness of his talent , and seizing ...
... facts , in support of this idea , which may claim some additional attention from the American reader , as being connected with the first settlement of Virginia . At the time when Shakspeare was in the fulness of his talent , and seizing ...
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... fact and fiction are inextricably interwoven . The quaint old chronicle of the Moor Rasis , which , though wild and fanciful in the extreme , is frequently drawn upon for early facts by Spanish historians , professes to give the birth ...
... fact and fiction are inextricably interwoven . The quaint old chronicle of the Moor Rasis , which , though wild and fanciful in the extreme , is frequently drawn upon for early facts by Spanish historians , professes to give the birth ...
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... out by the British press , for which they had nothing to pay for copy - right . This simple fact spoke volumes to me , as I trust it will do to all who peruse these lines . I do not mean to enter into the 78 [ January , Editors ' Table .
... out by the British press , for which they had nothing to pay for copy - right . This simple fact spoke volumes to me , as I trust it will do to all who peruse these lines . I do not mean to enter into the 78 [ January , Editors ' Table .
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Página 365 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Página 20 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Página 145 - With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Página 176 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 317 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity, — Fresh as if day again were born, Again upon the lap of morn...
Página 257 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Página 16 - 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.
Página 20 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 407 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Página 10 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.