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... close of the Middle Ages and of the Wars of the Roses ; revival of the Celtic Races , 140 , 141 - The Beginning of Modern England , 141 - Death of Elizabeth of York ( 1503 ) , 144 ; of HENRY VII . ( 1509 ) , 145 ; his Burial and Tomb ...
... close of the Middle Ages and of the Wars of the Roses ; revival of the Celtic Races , 140 , 141 - The Beginning of Modern England , 141 - Death of Elizabeth of York ( 1503 ) , 144 ; of HENRY VII . ( 1509 ) , 145 ; his Burial and Tomb ...
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... close by to feed the colony ; the gravel soil and the close fine sand , still dug up under the floor of the Abbey and in St. Margaret's Churchyard , was necessarily healthy ; and in the centre of the thickets there bubbled up at least ...
... close by to feed the colony ; the gravel soil and the close fine sand , still dug up under the floor of the Abbey and in St. Margaret's Churchyard , was necessarily healthy ; and in the centre of the thickets there bubbled up at least ...
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... close by . What was the first settlement in those thorny shades , amidst those watery wastes , beside that bubbling spring , it is impossible to decipher . The monastic traditions main- tained that the earliest building had been a ...
... close by . What was the first settlement in those thorny shades , amidst those watery wastes , beside that bubbling spring , it is impossible to decipher . The monastic traditions main- tained that the earliest building had been a ...
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... close beside it . The Abbey and the Palace grew together , and into each other , in the closest union : just as in Scotland , a few years later , Dunfermline Palace and Dunfermline Abbey sprang up side by side ; and again , Holyrood ...
... close beside it . The Abbey and the Palace grew together , and into each other , in the closest union : just as in Scotland , a few years later , Dunfermline Palace and Dunfermline Abbey sprang up side by side ; and again , Holyrood ...
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... close of the eleventh century . Legend of the Pilgrim . The other legend has a more personal character . The King was on his way to the dedication of the Chapel of St. John the Evangelist . " As Peter , the Prince of the Apostles , was ...
... close of the eleventh century . Legend of the Pilgrim . The other legend has a more personal character . The King was on his way to the dedication of the Chapel of St. John the Evangelist . " As Peter , the Prince of the Apostles , was ...
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Page 162 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 283 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 218 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 259 - At the moment in which he expired, he uttered, with an energy of voice, that expressed the most fervent devotion, two lines of his own version of Dies Irae: My God, my father, and my friend, Do not forsake me in my end.
Page 265 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart.
Page 165 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 97 - Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royallest seed That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin: Here the bones of birth have cried 'Though gods they were, as men they died!
Page 341 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.
Page 392 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Page 171 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; ' In arms who triumph'd, or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, graced with scars and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.