The Edinburgh Review, Volume 131A. and C. Black, 1870 - English literature |
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... influence stealing into the heart of the realm ; a power which , when it took earthly form , appeared in the shape of pale ascetics armed but with their breviaries , yet more terrible than the galleons of Philip , or the threatened ...
... influence stealing into the heart of the realm ; a power which , when it took earthly form , appeared in the shape of pale ascetics armed but with their breviaries , yet more terrible than the galleons of Philip , or the threatened ...
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... influence and intrigues of Esmé d'Aubigny , afterwards Duke of Lennox , which cost the Regent Morton his life ; by an incursion of Popish priests and Spanish and Italian adventurers on the coast of Ireland ; and by a systematic attempt ...
... influence and intrigues of Esmé d'Aubigny , afterwards Duke of Lennox , which cost the Regent Morton his life ; by an incursion of Popish priests and Spanish and Italian adventurers on the coast of Ireland ; and by a systematic attempt ...
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... influence in Scotland , and sent Morton to the scaffold ; or that the Duc d'Alençon had ob- tained from Elizabeth a false promise of her hand ? We have entered in some detail upon the particulars of this dreadful case , because it is ...
... influence in Scotland , and sent Morton to the scaffold ; or that the Duc d'Alençon had ob- tained from Elizabeth a false promise of her hand ? We have entered in some detail upon the particulars of this dreadful case , because it is ...
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... influence and threatened to ob- struct his succession . If he would maintain the edicts , " her Highness " promised all her power to support him and impugn his contraries . " He had " taken on him the protection of the Low Countries ...
... influence and threatened to ob- struct his succession . If he would maintain the edicts , " her Highness " promised all her power to support him and impugn his contraries . " He had " taken on him the protection of the Low Countries ...
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... influence . Mary was beheaded on the 8th February 1587 ; and Philip , if he had kept to his purpose , would have invaded England before the close of the same year . He was already to a great extent prepared ; England was totally ...
... influence . Mary was beheaded on the 8th February 1587 ; and Philip , if he had kept to his purpose , would have invaded England before the close of the same year . He was already to a great extent prepared ; England was totally ...
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Page 510 - To her that is the fairest under heaven, 1 seem as nothing in the mighty world, And cannot will my will, nor work my work Wholly, nor make myself in mine own realm Victor and lord. But were I join'd with her, Then might we live together as one life, And reigning with one will in everything Have power on this dark land to lighten it, And power on this dead world to make it live.
Page 510 - I made them lay their hands in mine, and swear To reverence the King as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 485 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Page 523 - Joseph, journeying brought To Glastonbury, where the winter thorn Blossoms at Christmas, mindful of our Lord. And there awhile it bode; and if a man Could touch or see it, he was heal'd at once, By faith, of all his ills. But then the times Grew to such evil that the holy cup Was caught away to Heaven, and disappear'd.
Page 530 - Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of land is given to plow. Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done...
Page 107 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expense of defending those provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or : military establishments in time of peace, and ,' endeavour to accommodate her future views/ and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances.
Page 194 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.
Page 530 - Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will ; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, -Nor the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again : ye have seen what ye have seen.
Page 524 - Stream'd thro' my cell a cold and silver beam, And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail, Rose-red with beatings in it, as if alive, Till all the white walls of my cell were dyed With rosy...
Page 125 - Calvin was born at Noyon, in Picardy, on the 10th of July, 1509. He was only eight years old when Luther posted his theses.