Two lectures read before the Essay society of Exeter college, Oxford [by R.J. King.].private distribution, 1840 - 100 sider |
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... never be so foolish , " said my wife . My wife's eldest sister rejoined , " He is foolish enough for any thing . " The Doctor , vol . i . " Saint Bride and her brat , Saint Colme and her cat , Saint Michael and his spear , Keep this ...
... never be so foolish , " said my wife . My wife's eldest sister rejoined , " He is foolish enough for any thing . " The Doctor , vol . i . " Saint Bride and her brat , Saint Colme and her cat , Saint Michael and his spear , Keep this ...
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... never wythinne walle . Before ech menstrale stod A torch fayre and good Brennynge fayre and bright : Inner more he yode To wyte with egre mode Ho sholde wyth him fyght He yede into the corneres And loked on the pylers That selcouth were ...
... never wythinne walle . Before ech menstrale stod A torch fayre and good Brennynge fayre and bright : Inner more he yode To wyte with egre mode Ho sholde wyth him fyght He yede into the corneres And loked on the pylers That selcouth were ...
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... never there nas , That he had seghe with eye . " j The far famed forest of Broceliande , in Bretagne , is another such sacred spot . The enchanted " Lady of the Fountain , " with her magic ring , is precisely one of those " Fairies of ...
... never there nas , That he had seghe with eye . " j The far famed forest of Broceliande , in Bretagne , is another such sacred spot . The enchanted " Lady of the Fountain , " with her magic ring , is precisely one of those " Fairies of ...
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... never to be emptied , whatever calls might be made on it , but " a mark of gold " always presented itself " as oft as he put the honde therein : " this purse , however , only retained its valu- able property as long as Sir Launfal ...
... never to be emptied , whatever calls might be made on it , but " a mark of gold " always presented itself " as oft as he put the honde therein : " this purse , however , only retained its valu- able property as long as Sir Launfal ...
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... and with spears in rest they rushed to the encounter . At the first course both their lances were shivered , but in the second , Sir Valentine succeeded in unhelming Launfal , who never before had " so moche shame . " 14.
... and with spears in rest they rushed to the encounter . At the first course both their lances were shivered , but in the second , Sir Valentine succeeded in unhelming Launfal , who never before had " so moche shame . " 14.
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Side 80 - It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. "Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Side 71 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Side 87 - Then anon they heard cracking and crying of thunder, that them thought the place should all to-drive. In the midst of this blast entered a sunbeam more clearer by seven times than ever they saw day, and all they were alighted of the grace of the Holy Ghost.
Side 29 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Side 14 - To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud, And nearer, voice of hunters, and of hounds, And horns, hoarse-winded, blowing far and keen :— Forthwith the hubbub multiplies ; the gale Labours with wilder shrieks, and rifer din Of hot pursuit ; the broken cry of deer Mangled by throttling dogs ; the shouts of men, And hoofs, thick beating on the hollow hill.
Side 80 - Their beds are made in the heavens high, Down at the foot of our good lord's knee, Weel set about wi' gillyflowers : , I wot sweet company for to see.
Side 41 - For not to have been dipt in Lethe lake Could save the sonne of Thetis from to die...