The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature; Fully Illustrated, Parte 5Delphian Society, 1911 |
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... warriors from the kingdoms of Bugia , Morocco and Tunis . They took advantage of a large and thick wood in their rear , to avoid dan- ger from ambuscades or skirmishers on that side . According to estimate they amounted to about 30,000 ...
... warriors from the kingdoms of Bugia , Morocco and Tunis . They took advantage of a large and thick wood in their rear , to avoid dan- ger from ambuscades or skirmishers on that side . According to estimate they amounted to about 30,000 ...
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... warriors , and their love was ennobled by the masculine strain of battle . For more than a century after 1140 , the subject of Arthurian romance was the leading theme , both of their poetry and their prose . In the year named , one ...
... warriors , and their love was ennobled by the masculine strain of battle . For more than a century after 1140 , the subject of Arthurian romance was the leading theme , both of their poetry and their prose . In the year named , one ...
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... warriors all may know , That the gentle count a conqueror died . " Mea culpa " full oft he cried , And , for his sins , unto God above , In sign of penance he raised his glove . Roland feeleth his hour at hand , On a knoll he lies ...
... warriors all may know , That the gentle count a conqueror died . " Mea culpa " full oft he cried , And , for his sins , unto God above , In sign of penance he raised his glove . Roland feeleth his hour at hand , On a knoll he lies ...
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... warrior king of the Goths in the fourth century . The Exeter manuscript , however , con- tains a list of monarchs down to beyond the year 520. There is inci- dental mention of the Angles and Saxons , and the names of chiefs and tribes ...
... warrior king of the Goths in the fourth century . The Exeter manuscript , however , con- tains a list of monarchs down to beyond the year 520. There is inci- dental mention of the Angles and Saxons , and the names of chiefs and tribes ...
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... warriors gather to enjoy festivity until their noise rouses a gigantic invulner- able fiend , Grendel , whose home is in a marshy lake not far off . The fiend , issuing by night , approaches the hall , seizes one of the men asleep on ...
... warriors gather to enjoy festivity until their noise rouses a gigantic invulner- able fiend , Grendel , whose home is in a marshy lake not far off . The fiend , issuing by night , approaches the hall , seizes one of the men asleep on ...
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Página 46 - Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my Guide ? " In His feet and hands are wound-prints, And His side.
Página 17 - I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Página 46 - If I ask Him to receive me, Will He say me nay ? "Not till earth and not till heaven Pass away.
Página 245 - THE hosts of Don Rodrigo were scattered in dismay, When lost was the eighth battle, nor heart nor hope had they ; He, when he saw that field was lost, and all his hope was flown, He turned him from his flying host, and took his way alone.
Página 133 - ATHELSTAN King, Lord among Earls, Bracelet-bestower and Baron of Barons, He with his brother, Edmund Atheling, Gaining a lifelong Glory in battle, Slew with the sword-edge There by Brunanburh, Brake the shield-wall, Hew'd the lindenwood,2 Hack'd the battleshield, Sons of Edward with hammer'd brands.
Página 367 - A few in fear, Flying away from him whose boast it was,* That the grass grew not where his horse had trod, Gave birth to VENICE.
Página 455 - Nine times already since my birth had the heaven of light returned to the selfsame point almost, as concerns its own revolution, when first the glorious Lady of my mind was made manifest to mine eyes ; even she who was called Beatrice by many who knew not wherefore...
Página 59 - I speaking, and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when lo ! I heard from a neighbouring house a voice, as of boy or girl, I know not, chanting, and oft repeating, "Take up and read; Take up and read.
Página 245 - Last night I was the King of Spain — to-day no king am I ; Last night fair castles held my train — to-night where shall I lie? Last night a hundred pages did serve me on the knee — To-night not one I call my own — not one pertains to me.
Página 86 - For into Paradise go none but such folk as I shall tell thee now : Thither go these same old priests, and halt old men and maimed, who all day and night cower continually before the altars and in the crypts ; and such folk as wear old amices and old clouted frocks, and naked folk and shoeless, and covered with sores, perishing of hunger and thirst, and of cold, and of little ease. These be they that go into Paradise; with them have I naught to make.