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... dream ? Brutal and evil human passions , unchained at first by religious fury , then delivered to their own devices , and , beneath a show of external courtesy , as vile as before . Look at the popular king , Richard Cœur de Lion , and ...
... dream ? Brutal and evil human passions , unchained at first by religious fury , then delivered to their own devices , and , beneath a show of external courtesy , as vile as before . Look at the popular king , Richard Cœur de Lion , and ...
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... dream : ' Thanne gan I meten - a merveillous swevene , That I was in a wildernesse - wiste I nevere where ; And as I biheeld into the eest , -an heigh to the sonne , I seigh a tour on a toft , -trieliche y - maked , A deep dale bynethe ...
... dream : ' Thanne gan I meten - a merveillous swevene , That I was in a wildernesse - wiste I nevere where ; And as I biheeld into the eest , -an heigh to the sonne , I seigh a tour on a toft , -trieliche y - maked , A deep dale bynethe ...
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... dream to a temple of glass , where on the walls are figured in gold all the legends of Ovid and Virgil , an infinite train of characters and dresses , like that which , on the painted glass in the churches , still occupies the gaze of ...
... dream to a temple of glass , where on the walls are figured in gold all the legends of Ovid and Virgil , an infinite train of characters and dresses , like that which , on the painted glass in the churches , still occupies the gaze of ...
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... dream . The lady was astonished , when suddenly a fair dame appeared and instructed her . She learned that the servants of the Leaf had lived like brave knights , and those of the Flower had loved idleness and pleasure . She promises to ...
... dream . The lady was astonished , when suddenly a fair dame appeared and instructed her . She learned that the servants of the Leaf had lived like brave knights , and those of the Flower had loved idleness and pleasure . She promises to ...
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... dream or not , in its maturity or infancy ? The whole future is before us . Savages or half savages , warriors of the Heptarchy or knights of the middle - age ; up to this period , no one had reached to this point . They had strange ...
... dream or not , in its maturity or infancy ? The whole future is before us . Savages or half savages , warriors of the Heptarchy or knights of the middle - age ; up to this period , no one had reached to this point . They had strange ...
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Side 216 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Side 339 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Side 430 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Side 450 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Side 337 - Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Side 218 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Side 337 - Hold, hold, my heart ; And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee ! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
Side 308 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; Calls virtue hypocrite ; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Side 384 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Side 370 - Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.