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... acted as keeper of the fine library col- lected in the Cathedral of York . While returning from a visit to Rome , he became acquainted at Parma with the Emperor Charle- magne , who invited him to France . Going thither in 782 , he ...
... acted as keeper of the fine library col- lected in the Cathedral of York . While returning from a visit to Rome , he became acquainted at Parma with the Emperor Charle- magne , who invited him to France . Going thither in 782 , he ...
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... acted as travelling agent or factor for the Company of London Mercers . While he was thus employed , the great invention of printing began to attract the notice of the world . Laurence Coster , in the woods of Haarlem , had shaped his ...
... acted as travelling agent or factor for the Company of London Mercers . While he was thus employed , the great invention of printing began to attract the notice of the world . Laurence Coster , in the woods of Haarlem , had shaped his ...
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... acted in 1535 at Cupar - Fife and Edinburgh . His Squire Meldrum , last of the metrical romances , is lively but licentious . The Monarchie , opening with the Creation and closing with the Day of Judgment , is valuable for its spirited ...
... acted in 1535 at Cupar - Fife and Edinburgh . His Squire Meldrum , last of the metrical romances , is lively but licentious . The Monarchie , opening with the Creation and closing with the Day of Judgment , is valuable for its spirited ...
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... acted in churches and convents , either by the clergy themselves or under their immediate direction , was the earliest form of the English drama . The only knowledge of Bible history possessed by the rude and ignorant masses of the ...
... acted in churches and convents , either by the clergy themselves or under their immediate direction , was the earliest form of the English drama . The only knowledge of Bible history possessed by the rude and ignorant masses of the ...
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... acted these Moralities on certain great days and state occasions . An open scaffold knocked up in the market - place , or a platform of planks drawn upon wheels , served as a stage , on which such pieces as Hit the Nail on the Head , or ...
... acted these Moralities on certain great days and state occasions . An open scaffold knocked up in the market - place , or a platform of planks drawn upon wheels , served as a stage , on which such pieces as Hit the Nail on the Head , or ...
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Page 493 - 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.
Page 149 - Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 148 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Page 392 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 209 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 211 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven...
Page 378 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 391 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 363 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 210 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven ? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be...