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... live ; Their pains and poverty desire to bear , To view the light of heav'n , and breathe the vital air . - Virgil . Acts . THE great Canicular cycle of the Egyptians , consisting of 1460 years , began with the sun in Cancer , and ...
... live ; Their pains and poverty desire to bear , To view the light of heav'n , and breathe the vital air . - Virgil . Acts . THE great Canicular cycle of the Egyptians , consisting of 1460 years , began with the sun in Cancer , and ...
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... lives in that inundation . Gibbon dates the period of the fall of the Roman Empire from the reign of Valens , when , as Vol- taire sings , " Scythia breathed over it the living cloud of war . " Thomas Cavendish sails from Plymouth upon ...
... lives in that inundation . Gibbon dates the period of the fall of the Roman Empire from the reign of Valens , when , as Vol- taire sings , " Scythia breathed over it the living cloud of war . " Thomas Cavendish sails from Plymouth upon ...
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... lives were spared through the tears and intercession of Philippa . It was during this famous siege that ' ST . GEORGE ' of England was first invoked in the battle . The marines and archers on foot received 3d .; the Black Prince , 1 ...
... lives were spared through the tears and intercession of Philippa . It was during this famous siege that ' ST . GEORGE ' of England was first invoked in the battle . The marines and archers on foot received 3d .; the Black Prince , 1 ...
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... Charle- magne , fell upon the holiday of Christmas , 1800 . I'll hide the rest , and grieve for what hath been , Who made me known , must make me live unseen . Complaint of Rosamond . *** 537 Day . VII . Id . 7 . Now hear VI . AUGUST .
... Charle- magne , fell upon the holiday of Christmas , 1800 . I'll hide the rest , and grieve for what hath been , Who made me known , must make me live unseen . Complaint of Rosamond . *** 537 Day . VII . Id . 7 . Now hear VI . AUGUST .
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... 1772 . The Roman Autumn commenced ; when our dog - days terminate . Griev'd with the present ; of the past , asham'd : They live , and are despis'd : they die , nor more are nam'd . Day . IV . Id . 10 . For Lycidas XI . AUGUST .
... 1772 . The Roman Autumn commenced ; when our dog - days terminate . Griev'd with the present ; of the past , asham'd : They live , and are despis'd : they die , nor more are nam'd . Day . IV . Id . 10 . For Lycidas XI . AUGUST .
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Page xxviii - Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page x - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page xxvii - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page xxii - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page vii - All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily ; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page xxvi - Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...