The History of England: The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman conquest ... In three volumes

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Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839

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Página 153 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O GOD, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore GOD, even thy GOD, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Página 322 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 198 - ... we will cause to be summoned the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons of the realm, singly by our letters. And furthermore we shall cause to be summoned generally by our sheriffs and bailiffs, all others who hold of us in chief...
Página 582 - The three qualifications of poetry; endowment of genius, judgment from experience, and felicity of thought. The three pillars of judgment: bold design, frequent practice, and frequent mistakes.
Página xvi - Yet from such ancestors a nation has, in the course of twelve centuries, been formed, which, inferior to none in every moral and intellectual merit, is superior to every other in the love and possession of useful liberty: a nation which cultivates with equal success the elegancies of art, the ingenious labours of industry, the energies of war, the researches of science, and the richest productions of genius.
Página 310 - ... odious man at her pleasure laid ; so as the wretch she might the easiest well command. She with the twisted locks struck the hateful enemy, meditating hate, with the red sword, till she had half cut off his neck; so that he lay in a swoon, drunk and mortally wounded. He was not then dead, not entirely lifeless. She struck then earnest, the woman illustrious in strength, another time the heathen hound, till that his head rolled forth upon the floor. The foul one lay without...
Página 202 - Moreover, the said knights are to have full and sufficient power for themselves and for the community of the aforesaid county, and the said citizens and burgesses for themselves and the...
Página 21 - We read of two places purchased for twentyone pounds, wherein sixteen thousand of these fish were caught' every year ; and, in one charta, twenty fishermen are stated, who furnished, during the same period, sixty thousand eels to the monastery...
Página 402 - ... born in the territory of that same monastery, was given, at seven years of age, to be educated by the most reverend Abbot Benedict, and afterwards by Ceolfrid; and spending all the remaining time of my life in that monastery, I wholly applied myself to the study of Scripture, and amidst the observance of regular discipline, and the daily care of singing in the church, I always took delight in learning, teaching, and writing.
Página 422 - ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF THE STORY OF APOLLONIUS of Tyre ;— upon which is founded the Play of Pericles, attributed to Shakespeare; — from a MS., with a Translation and Glossary.

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