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... England , and the Angles in Northeastern England , in the lands stretching from Saxon territory to the Firth of Forth . The defeated Celts ( or Britons ) had fled into the western parts of the island - Wales and Corn- wall - and even ...
... England , and the Angles in Northeastern England , in the lands stretching from Saxon territory to the Firth of Forth . The defeated Celts ( or Britons ) had fled into the western parts of the island - Wales and Corn- wall - and even ...
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... England for his followers . French - speaking people thereupon become the nobility and gentry of England . The English people , and their language with them , were forced into a humble position . For some time the two races and the two ...
... England for his followers . French - speaking people thereupon become the nobility and gentry of England . The English people , and their language with them , were forced into a humble position . For some time the two races and the two ...
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... England's crown , Henry the Second's progress , any one else's book , some one else's picture . 33. When the nominative plural ends in -s , the genitive plural differs only in adding an apostrophe . The dogs ' heads , kings ' rights ...
... England's crown , Henry the Second's progress , any one else's book , some one else's picture . 33. When the nominative plural ends in -s , the genitive plural differs only in adding an apostrophe . The dogs ' heads , kings ' rights ...
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... England's domains the sun never sets . ( 8 ) Your king and country's best support . - RowE , Jane Shore iii . 1. 222 . ( 9 ) Dryden and Rowe's manner are quite out of style . - GOLD- SMITH . ( 10 ) Whose arch or pillar meets me in the ...
... England's domains the sun never sets . ( 8 ) Your king and country's best support . - RowE , Jane Shore iii . 1. 222 . ( 9 ) Dryden and Rowe's manner are quite out of style . - GOLD- SMITH . ( 10 ) Whose arch or pillar meets me in the ...
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... England . Old English had two demonstratives , that being the neuter nomina- tive of one , this the neuter nominative of the other . With the loss of the gender idea , these neuters came to be used with all nouns . They were once ...
... England . Old English had two demonstratives , that being the neuter nomina- tive of one , this the neuter nominative of the other . With the loss of the gender idea , these neuters came to be used with all nouns . They were once ...
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Page 262 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 349 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
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Page 262 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: — Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 357 - IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array.
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Page 258 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 261 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Page 193 - Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Page 229 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!