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... made their way into that country , and also took possession of Northern France . Some of the Teutons who gained a foothold in England were known as Angles , and from them the country took its name - Angle - land [ 25 ]
... made their way into that country , and also took possession of Northern France . Some of the Teutons who gained a foothold in England were known as Angles , and from them the country took its name - Angle - land [ 25 ]
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Goodloe Harper Bell. them the country took its name - Angle - land , or Eng- land . The people of England were at this time very rude in their manner of living , and seemed to be fond of war for its own sake . Other bands of Teutons ...
Goodloe Harper Bell. them the country took its name - Angle - land , or Eng- land . The people of England were at this time very rude in their manner of living , and seemed to be fond of war for its own sake . Other bands of Teutons ...
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... land of the Goths to a land of the Danes , and there frees a chief named Hrothgar from the attacks of a monster of the fens and moors , named Grendel . Afterward he is himself ruler , is wounded mortally in combat with a dragon , and is ...
... land of the Goths to a land of the Danes , and there frees a chief named Hrothgar from the attacks of a monster of the fens and moors , named Grendel . Afterward he is himself ruler , is wounded mortally in combat with a dragon , and is ...
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... lands . Thus he spent his life in educating his people and in trying to build up a healthy , happy kingdom . He gave Alfred did more than simply to translate . explanations of difficult or obscure passages , and made many important ...
... lands . Thus he spent his life in educating his people and in trying to build up a healthy , happy kingdom . He gave Alfred did more than simply to translate . explanations of difficult or obscure passages , and made many important ...
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... land , exercising a wide influence . All the ecclesias- tics were men whom the king could trust to carry out his wishes . Even the laws were in French , and all legal proceedings had to be carried on in that language . The writers of ...
... land , exercising a wide influence . All the ecclesias- tics were men whom the king could trust to carry out his wishes . Even the laws were in French , and all legal proceedings had to be carried on in that language . The writers of ...
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Página 434 - Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. " Halt ! "• — the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
Página 277 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air...
Página 276 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn...
Página 418 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 275 - The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Página 320 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such...
Página 416 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Página 276 - This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The Spirit he loves remains; And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains. The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread...
Página 417 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
Página 76 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.