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... establish schools of learning , and to gather around him the accomplished and the virtuous , by whose assistance and advice the sovereign might be effectually prevented from becoming a despot . All this he succeeded in accomplishing ...
... establish schools of learning , and to gather around him the accomplished and the virtuous , by whose assistance and advice the sovereign might be effectually prevented from becoming a despot . All this he succeeded in accomplishing ...
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... established in the sunny climate of genial Neustria . The result of this was , that on the decease of the Confessor , William the Norman , with the important exception of illegitimate birth , which was then but slightly regarded ...
... established in the sunny climate of genial Neustria . The result of this was , that on the decease of the Confessor , William the Norman , with the important exception of illegitimate birth , which was then but slightly regarded ...
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... established feudalism amongst their own people , instead of amidst a subjected yet naturally hostile race ; and the system thus became a pure tyranny . In England , on the contrary , the same system , from the different circum- stances ...
... established feudalism amongst their own people , instead of amidst a subjected yet naturally hostile race ; and the system thus became a pure tyranny . In England , on the contrary , the same system , from the different circum- stances ...
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... established the principle which had lain dormant since the days of Harold the Second , that the choice of the people and of parliament formed a better title to the crown than that of hereditary descent . This first revolution , however ...
... established the principle which had lain dormant since the days of Harold the Second , that the choice of the people and of parliament formed a better title to the crown than that of hereditary descent . This first revolution , however ...
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... of the nation were by her time professedly Protestant ; and to gratify them , she commenced a system of perse- cution against Catholics , and dissenters from the QUEEN ELIZABETH . 35 established religion , worthy of the 34 INTRODUCTION .
... of the nation were by her time professedly Protestant ; and to gratify them , she commenced a system of perse- cution against Catholics , and dissenters from the QUEEN ELIZABETH . 35 established religion , worthy of the 34 INTRODUCTION .
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Página 161 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Página 153 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 162 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 89 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 167 - For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving; And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Página 160 - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; 6 Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...
Página 152 - 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 147 - All school-days friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate.
Página 159 - In perfect diapason, whilst they stood In first obedience and their state of good. O, may we soon again renew that song, And keep in tune with heaven, till God ere long To his celestial consort us unite, To live with him and sing in endless morn of light!
Página 170 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy...