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... thing apart , like the Irish or the Icelandic literature , and requires to be studied in connec- tion with the fossil remains of other extinct cognate lan- guages , such as the Old Saxon , the Mosogothic , and the Frisian . It is a ...
... thing apart , like the Irish or the Icelandic literature , and requires to be studied in connec- tion with the fossil remains of other extinct cognate lan- guages , such as the Old Saxon , the Mosogothic , and the Frisian . It is a ...
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... thing ; for without some degree of astro- nomical knowledge the calendar could not be computed , and the very church feasts could not be fixed to their proper dates . Moreover , the ignis fatuus of astrology- the delusive belief that ...
... thing ; for without some degree of astro- nomical knowledge the calendar could not be computed , and the very church feasts could not be fixed to their proper dates . Moreover , the ignis fatuus of astrology- the delusive belief that ...
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... things hold its ground . In poetry , the originality of the thought , the vigour and aptness of the expression , are what consti- tutes the charm ; we read it , not that we may learn about things , but that we may come in contact with ...
... things hold its ground . In poetry , the originality of the thought , the vigour and aptness of the expression , are what consti- tutes the charm ; we read it , not that we may learn about things , but that we may come in contact with ...
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... things . William Dunbar , the greatest of the old Scottish poets , was a native of East Lothian , and born about the middle of the fifteenth century . He studied at the university of St. Andrew's , perhaps also at Oxford . In early life ...
... things . William Dunbar , the greatest of the old Scottish poets , was a native of East Lothian , and born about the middle of the fifteenth century . He studied at the university of St. Andrew's , perhaps also at Oxford . In early life ...
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... thing is observable in Burns ' poetry . Learning : -Grocyn , Colet , the Humanities ; State of the Universities . The fifteenth century was , as we have said , pre- eminently an age of accumulation , assimilation , and preparation . The ...
... thing is observable in Burns ' poetry . Learning : -Grocyn , Colet , the Humanities ; State of the Universities . The fifteenth century was , as we have said , pre- eminently an age of accumulation , assimilation , and preparation . The ...
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Side 338 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest. Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Side 320 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Side 304 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Side 255 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Side 331 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Side 164 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Side 338 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Side 308 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Side 282 - Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Side 315 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.