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... received from both Houses of Parliament that important and gratifying tribute of their just applause , 1814 : Mr. Abbot , the Speaker ( Lord Colchester ) , after the enthusiasm had subsided , addressed in these memorable words the great ...
... received from both Houses of Parliament that important and gratifying tribute of their just applause , 1814 : Mr. Abbot , the Speaker ( Lord Colchester ) , after the enthusiasm had subsided , addressed in these memorable words the great ...
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... received some brushings of late . It may be acted this 3 July , 1633. ” William , Prince of Orange , is invested with the Stadtholderate of Holland , by the people , in his twenty - second year , 1672 . We saw distinctly , observes the ...
... received some brushings of late . It may be acted this 3 July , 1633. ” William , Prince of Orange , is invested with the Stadtholderate of Holland , by the people , in his twenty - second year , 1672 . We saw distinctly , observes the ...
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... received his star from the circumstance ; an ensign , adopted by Titus from the rites of Apis . The troops of Gainas , at Constantinople , are massacred , A. D. 400 . The miracle - play of " St. George " is performed at Bassingborne ...
... received his star from the circumstance ; an ensign , adopted by Titus from the rites of Apis . The troops of Gainas , at Constantinople , are massacred , A. D. 400 . The miracle - play of " St. George " is performed at Bassingborne ...
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... received additional instructions from his spiritual master ; whose avocation of the cause to Rome arrived three days after , 1529 . The treaty between Charles V. and the Reformers is concluded at Nuremberg ; and ratified solemnly at the ...
... received additional instructions from his spiritual master ; whose avocation of the cause to Rome arrived three days after , 1529 . The treaty between Charles V. and the Reformers is concluded at Nuremberg ; and ratified solemnly at the ...
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... receiving the title of Augustus , and almost four- teen years and a half after his promotion to the rank of Cæsar . There were in the next year four Emperors , Constantine , Licinius , Maximi- anus Hercules ( the rough colleague of ...
... receiving the title of Augustus , and almost four- teen years and a half after his promotion to the rank of Cæsar . There were in the next year four Emperors , Constantine , Licinius , Maximi- anus Hercules ( the rough colleague of ...
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Page xxviii - Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page x - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page xxvii - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page xxii - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page vii - All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily ; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page xxvi - Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...