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... strength and pagan piety , but in them nature is itself half divine , and their deepest instincts are normally as gentle as that ' modest stillness and humility ' King Henry counselled as most worthy in times of peace , though , on ...
... strength and pagan piety , but in them nature is itself half divine , and their deepest instincts are normally as gentle as that ' modest stillness and humility ' King Henry counselled as most worthy in times of peace , though , on ...
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... strength of Britain ; which strength , however , must pay due honour to that Roman greatness which is its prototype . The meaning is clearer if we return to the Soothsayer's vision : he saw the Roman eagle as dissolving into the ...
... strength of Britain ; which strength , however , must pay due honour to that Roman greatness which is its prototype . The meaning is clearer if we return to the Soothsayer's vision : he saw the Roman eagle as dissolving into the ...
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... strength being one constituent , not the aim , of the creative purpose ; which purpose is , in its own way , itself a supreme power , there being no greater or more masterly powers than those of Shakespeare's ' great creating nature ...
... strength being one constituent , not the aim , of the creative purpose ; which purpose is , in its own way , itself a supreme power , there being no greater or more masterly powers than those of Shakespeare's ' great creating nature ...
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OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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