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... way to fame : these are surely things of no slight interest and value to the earnest student of English Literature . to such this book is offered . And October 5 , 1861 W. F. C. CONTENTS . THE PRE - ENGLISH ERA . Chap .
... way to fame : these are surely things of no slight interest and value to the earnest student of English Literature . to such this book is offered . And October 5 , 1861 W. F. C. CONTENTS . THE PRE - ENGLISH ERA . Chap .
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... thing in the Cornhill to the drawings of Millais and of Doyle ? The various gradations by which the first rude sketch changed into that wonderful invention - a word formed of alphabetic symbols -cannot here be traced . Take two ...
... thing in the Cornhill to the drawings of Millais and of Doyle ? The various gradations by which the first rude sketch changed into that wonderful invention - a word formed of alphabetic symbols -cannot here be traced . Take two ...
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... things . The Phoenicians , who had much to do with early Egypt , in adopting the art of writing probably abandoned the pictorial part of the hieroglyphic system , and retaining only the phonetics , formed out of these the first pure ...
... things . The Phoenicians , who had much to do with early Egypt , in adopting the art of writing probably abandoned the pictorial part of the hieroglyphic system , and retaining only the phonetics , formed out of these the first pure ...
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... thing of which his countrymen were especially proud - was the fact that he , a Briton , had been chosen to give instruction to the great Emperor of the West . ERIGENA . — John Scotus or Erigena , although not a Saxon , but , as his name ...
... thing of which his countrymen were especially proud - was the fact that he , a Briton , had been chosen to give instruction to the great Emperor of the West . ERIGENA . — John Scotus or Erigena , although not a Saxon , but , as his name ...
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... things : he was a learned layman , and a well - read Greek scholar , both characters being very rare in those benighted days . His chief works are a treatise on Predestination , in which he argues that God has fore - ordained only ...
... things : he was a learned layman , and a well - read Greek scholar , both characters being very rare in those benighted days . His chief works are a treatise on Predestination , in which he argues that God has fore - ordained only ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...