Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 90W. Blackwood., 1861 |
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... King Athelstane's life from the Northmen in the great fight of Brunanburgh , whose combative spirit , Dr Hook thinks , would in these days have found its natural vent in the House of Lords , in some trenchant onslaught upon the ...
... King Athelstane's life from the Northmen in the great fight of Brunanburgh , whose combative spirit , Dr Hook thinks , would in these days have found its natural vent in the House of Lords , in some trenchant onslaught upon the ...
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... King Arthur , although the historic truth is not conclusive , the principle is intelligible ; or when a man tells us that his ancestor came over with the Conqueror , and points to his name on the roll of Battle Abbey , there is a ...
... King Arthur , although the historic truth is not conclusive , the principle is intelligible ; or when a man tells us that his ancestor came over with the Conqueror , and points to his name on the roll of Battle Abbey , there is a ...
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... King of Kent was a heathen , his Queen , Bertha , had brought with her from her father's court at Paris her Christian chap- lain , Luidhard . An ancient church had been assigned her for the offices of her faith 1861. ] 5 Hook's ...
... King of Kent was a heathen , his Queen , Bertha , had brought with her from her father's court at Paris her Christian chap- lain , Luidhard . An ancient church had been assigned her for the offices of her faith 1861. ] 5 Hook's ...
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... King Eth- elbert . Augustine himself was one of nature's princes , like Saul- " from his shoulders upward , ” says the chronicler , " higher than any of the people . " Before him went a verger carrying a massive silver cross , and ...
... King Eth- elbert . Augustine himself was one of nature's princes , like Saul- " from his shoulders upward , ” says the chronicler , " higher than any of the people . " Before him went a verger carrying a massive silver cross , and ...
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... kings and bishops , and the customs of Chris- tian Rome , as of Pagan Rome , for- bid burial within the gates of the city . There Ethelbert and Augus- tine both had their bones laid ; and the value attached to such relics of the ...
... kings and bishops , and the customs of Chris- tian Rome , as of Pagan Rome , for- bid burial within the gates of the city . There Ethelbert and Augus- tine both had their bones laid ; and the value attached to such relics of the ...
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Page 79 - 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 395 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Page 594 - When I remember all The friends so linked together I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 228 - Tread softly — bow the head — In reverent silence bow — No passing bell doth toll, — Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou.
Page 227 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 322 - Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classic authors ; which being then all the fashion in the University, made his company the more acceptable.
Page 610 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Page 322 - Wood's character of him is, that " he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person ; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity.
Page 226 - In her right hand the lily, in her left The letter — all her bright hair streaming down — And all the coverlid was cloth of gold Drawn to her waist, and she herself in white All but her face, and that clear-featured face Was lovely, for she did not seem as dead, But fast asleep, and lay as tho
Page 396 - Governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands...