Alfred the West Saxon: King of EnglishJ. M. Dent & Company, 1901 - 376 pages |
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... come from a master hand , disciplined by previous work on this period , it aims at being faithful to the data accepted by the best informed and most recent students of King Alfred's time and work . It makes no pretension to expert Anglo ...
... come from a master hand , disciplined by previous work on this period , it aims at being faithful to the data accepted by the best informed and most recent students of King Alfred's time and work . It makes no pretension to expert Anglo ...
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... come too near it . He put aside the many claims of his kingdom to make time for a pilgrimage to the city of St Peter and St Paul , which was to the medieval Christian all that Mecca is to the Mahommedan . It is possible 1 Roger de ...
... come too near it . He put aside the many claims of his kingdom to make time for a pilgrimage to the city of St Peter and St Paul , which was to the medieval Christian all that Mecca is to the Mahommedan . It is possible 1 Roger de ...
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... come to cast a halo round the head of womanhood , while the Saxons were still in the forests of Ger- many , the dignity ... comes from sharing the perils of war . " Tradition says that armies , already wavering and giving way , have been ...
... come to cast a halo round the head of womanhood , while the Saxons were still in the forests of Ger- many , the dignity ... comes from sharing the perils of war . " Tradition says that armies , already wavering and giving way , have been ...
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... come the evenings 1 " There be backsword play , and climming the powl , And a race for a peg and a cheese , And us thenks as hisn's a dummell zowl As dwont care for zich spwoorts as theze . " -Berkshire ballad , sung at the scouring of ...
... come the evenings 1 " There be backsword play , and climming the powl , And a race for a peg and a cheese , And us thenks as hisn's a dummell zowl As dwont care for zich spwoorts as theze . " -Berkshire ballad , sung at the scouring of ...
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... come forth light Upon the boundless , the ocean broad . The high king's behest with haste was fulfilled : For him the light holy was over the waste , As bade the Creator . " When the poet reaches the fourteenth chapter of Genesis , the ...
... come forth light Upon the boundless , the ocean broad . The high king's behest with haste was fulfilled : For him the light holy was over the waste , As bade the Creator . " When the poet reaches the fourteenth chapter of Genesis , the ...
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Alfred the West Saxon, King of the English (Classic Reprint) Dugald Macfadyen No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 207 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 190 - Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat — one Who can rule and dare not lie.
Page 61 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 207 - And let them judge the people at all seasons : and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge : so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
Page 321 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 91 - WELL for him whose will is strong ! He suffers, but he will not suffer long ; He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong : For him nor moves the loud world's random mock, Nor all Calamity's hugest waves confound, Who seems a promontory of rock, That, coirpass'd round with turbulent sound, In middle ocean meets the surging shock, Tempest-buffeted, citadel-crown'd.
Page 61 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Page 190 - Keep ye the Law — be swift in all obedience — Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown ; By the peace among Our peoples let men know we serve the Lord!
Page 61 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 221 - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.