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... heard . The fabulous Prester John , whose country is described in the section here given from Mandeville's Travels , was first heard of at Rome in 1145 as a Nestorian priest who claimed to be descended from the Magi . He had taken ...
... heard . The fabulous Prester John , whose country is described in the section here given from Mandeville's Travels , was first heard of at Rome in 1145 as a Nestorian priest who claimed to be descended from the Magi . He had taken ...
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... heard mass , and every man was shriven and housled ; and then we entered , fourteen persons , but at our going out we were but nine . And so we never knew whether our fellows were lost , or had turned back for fear ; but we never saw ...
... heard mass , and every man was shriven and housled ; and then we entered , fourteen persons , but at our going out we were but nine . And so we never knew whether our fellows were lost , or had turned back for fear ; but we never saw ...
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... heard say , why this emperor is called Prester John . There was some time an emperor there , who was a worthy and a full noble prince , that had Christian knights in his company , as he has that now is . So it befell that he had great ...
... heard say , why this emperor is called Prester John . There was some time an emperor there , who was a worthy and a full noble prince , that had Christian knights in his company , as he has that now is . So it befell that he had great ...
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... heard of him ill in London wrote , " I would ye were at home , if it were for your ease ( and your sore might be as well looked to here as it is . there ye be ) , now , liever than a gown , though it were of scarlet . " 66 The following ...
... heard of him ill in London wrote , " I would ye were at home , if it were for your ease ( and your sore might be as well looked to here as it is . there ye be ) , now , liever than a gown , though it were of scarlet . " 66 The following ...
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... heard so much of his birth and his conditions that , an ye will , she will have him whether that her mother will or will not , notwithstanding it is told her his person is simple , for she saith men shall have the more deyntee of her if ...
... heard so much of his birth and his conditions that , an ye will , she will have him whether that her mother will or will not , notwithstanding it is told her his person is simple , for she saith men shall have the more deyntee of her if ...
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Página 261 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 129 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 137 - 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 mid-day 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...
Página 261 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. "Seven years, my lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Página 261 - World," that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 339 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Página 221 - I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Página 221 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Página 221 - I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length said I, ' Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.' The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing...
Página 131 - We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force. God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.