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He has been styled The Chaucer of Scotland , ' and placed by Sir Walter Scott at
the head of Scottish poets . His chief poems are The Thistle and the Rose , a
nuptial - song on the union of James and the Princess Margaret , The Golden
Terge ...
He has been styled The Chaucer of Scotland , ' and placed by Sir Walter Scott at
the head of Scottish poets . His chief poems are The Thistle and the Rose , a
nuptial - song on the union of James and the Princess Margaret , The Golden
Terge ...
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But the stag was in the end so hotly pursued , that , leaving his flight , he was
driven to make courage of despair ; and so turning his head , made the hounds ,
with change of speech , to testify that he was at a bay : as if from hot pursuit of
their ...
But the stag was in the end so hotly pursued , that , leaving his flight , he was
driven to make courage of despair ; and so turning his head , made the hounds ,
with change of speech , to testify that he was at a bay : as if from hot pursuit of
their ...
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... if those principal and mother elements of the world , whereof all things in this
lower world are made , should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the
frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve
itself ...
... if those principal and mother elements of the world , whereof all things in this
lower world are made , should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the
frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve
itself ...
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... but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as diseases of the body may have
appropriate exercises - bowling is good for the stone and reins , shooting for the
lungs and breast , gentle walking for the stomach , riding for the head , and the
like ...
... but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as diseases of the body may have
appropriate exercises - bowling is good for the stone and reins , shooting for the
lungs and breast , gentle walking for the stomach , riding for the head , and the
like ...
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... and surrounded with God ' s protection ; the shop of war hath not there more
anvils and hammers working to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed
justice in defence of beleaguered truth , than there be pens and heads there
sitting ...
... and surrounded with God ' s protection ; the shop of war hath not there more
anvils and hammers working to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed
justice in defence of beleaguered truth , than there be pens and heads there
sitting ...
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Seite 33 - Dragon's 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 ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 35 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would...
Seite 21 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Seite 19 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Seite 145 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Seite 220 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 21 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Seite 33 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Seite 145 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
Seite 78 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860 |
| Autor/in | Chambers W. and R., ltd |
| Veröffentlicht | 1865 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 28. Juli 2006 |
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