LESSONS FROM MY MASTERS CARLYLE TENNYSON AND RUSKIN |
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... ENGLAND'S RE- LATIONS WITH FREDERICK · 163 XVIII . - FREDERICK'S VICTORIES OF PEACE . 172 XIX . THE PARTITION OF POLAND . - FREDERICK'S LAW REFORMS . 176 XX . - FREDERICK THE POOR MAN'S LAWYER . - LINZENBARTH . XXI . - CARLYLE'S ACCOUNT ...
... ENGLAND'S RE- LATIONS WITH FREDERICK · 163 XVIII . - FREDERICK'S VICTORIES OF PEACE . 172 XIX . THE PARTITION OF POLAND . - FREDERICK'S LAW REFORMS . 176 XX . - FREDERICK THE POOR MAN'S LAWYER . - LINZENBARTH . XXI . - CARLYLE'S ACCOUNT ...
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... England as portrayed by Milton in the following words : " The genius of England no longer soars sunward , world - defiant , like an eagle through the storms , mewing her mighty youth , ' as John Milton saw her do the genius of England ...
... England as portrayed by Milton in the following words : " The genius of England no longer soars sunward , world - defiant , like an eagle through the storms , mewing her mighty youth , ' as John Milton saw her do the genius of England ...
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... England of the period is placed before us . ENGLAND IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY . How much is still alive in England ; how much has not yet come into life ! A Feudal Aristocracy is still alive , in the prime of life ; superin- tending the ...
... England of the period is placed before us . ENGLAND IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY . How much is still alive in England ; how much has not yet come into life ! A Feudal Aristocracy is still alive , in the prime of life ; superin- tending the ...
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... England , of the Iron - heart now , not of the Lion - heart ; for these souls of her children an account may perhaps be one day required of her . " I know not any true sense in which Walter Scott can be said " So far as DEIFICATION OF ...
... England , of the Iron - heart now , not of the Lion - heart ; for these souls of her children an account may perhaps be one day required of her . " I know not any true sense in which Walter Scott can be said " So far as DEIFICATION OF ...
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... England , in her pure , priestly dress , passing by on the other side . " The plain fact is , that England all but adored Byron until he infamously treated his wife , and that Turner was not only hailed with acclamation by the consti ...
... England , in her pure , priestly dress , passing by on the other side . " The plain fact is , that England all but adored Byron until he infamously treated his wife , and that Turner was not only hailed with acclamation by the consti ...
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Page 287 - Ah ! who hath reft,' quoth he, ' my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : ' How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies...
Page 319 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 294 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Page 281 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Page 287 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 291 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 205 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Page 281 - Lo ! in the middle of the wood, ; The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud With winds upon the branch, and there Grows green and broad, and takes no care, Sun-steep'd at noon, and in the moon Nightly dew-fed ; and turning yellow Falls, and floats adown the air.
Page 204 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 202 - Hall; Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.