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... passed through two great phases long prior to the appearance of Wyckliffe , the morning star of the Reformation . Its oriento- apostolical origin , combined with the characteristics of the races by which our land was peopled , enabled ...
... passed through two great phases long prior to the appearance of Wyckliffe , the morning star of the Reformation . Its oriento- apostolical origin , combined with the characteristics of the races by which our land was peopled , enabled ...
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... passed prior to the dawn of the Reformation , may be said to have been strictly a political one ; it was the struggle of royalty in the coils of the papacy , and was the necessary consequence of the events which had led to the ...
... passed prior to the dawn of the Reformation , may be said to have been strictly a political one ; it was the struggle of royalty in the coils of the papacy , and was the necessary consequence of the events which had led to the ...
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... passed him on its way to Grafton , Anne Boleyn only casting on him a proud and disdainful look . She had obtained the victory . The Cardinal's humiliation was not however complete . Deprived of the Great Seal , he was subsequently ...
... passed him on its way to Grafton , Anne Boleyn only casting on him a proud and disdainful look . She had obtained the victory . The Cardinal's humiliation was not however complete . Deprived of the Great Seal , he was subsequently ...
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... passed over in silence . His lines on the river Severn ( 1612 ) are well entitled to notice . He eulogizes it for numerous and varied stock of fish . ' So that of every kind , the new - spawn'd numerous fry , Seem in me as the sands ...
... passed over in silence . His lines on the river Severn ( 1612 ) are well entitled to notice . He eulogizes it for numerous and varied stock of fish . ' So that of every kind , the new - spawn'd numerous fry , Seem in me as the sands ...
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... passed under the name of Merlin ; but this passage of Cambrian history must be passed over . Our readers will probably expect some notice of the legend which gives to Wales the credit usually assigned to Columbus- the discovery and ...
... passed under the name of Merlin ; but this passage of Cambrian history must be passed over . Our readers will probably expect some notice of the legend which gives to Wales the credit usually assigned to Columbus- the discovery and ...
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Page 294 - But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee — With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 293 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 293 - But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he uttered, not a feather then he fluttered; Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before; On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 294 - It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 289 - Then think I of deep shadows on the grass, Of meadows where in sun the cattle graze, Where, as the breezes pass, The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways, Of leaves that slumber in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, and of a sky above, Where one white cloud like a stray lamb doth move.
Page 299 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 473 - And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe...
Page 289 - DANDELION DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May...
Page 294 - Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast! For, alas! alas! with me The light of Life is o'er! "No more — no more — no more...
Page 478 - The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect ; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world.