... noble architecture in cathedrals and palaces, of
formal religious ritual, and of the pomp and display of all elaborate pageantry. In the outcome they largely
reshaped the heavy mass of Anglo-Saxon ... ones as Burns' 'Cotter's Saturday Night,' Byron's 'Childe
Harold,' Keats' 'Eve of St. Agnes,' and Shelley's 'Adonais.'
In general ... years beginning in 1660. Pepys, who ultimately became Secretary to the Admiralty, and
was a hard-working and very able naval official, was also astonishingly naïf and vain. In his 'Diary'...
... had followed Fabyan as an
English historian, and, above all, Latimer's Sermons had shown how to transform spoken Englishof the
raciest kind into literature. Lord Berners's translations ... was written to another father ofEnglish prose, Sir Thomas
Hoby, the translator of Castiglione's Courtier. But Ascham had already and some years earlier published his
Toxophilus, and various ... translations of Froissart and of divers examples of late Continental
romance had provided much prose of no mean quality for light reading, and also by their imitation of the
florid and fanciful style of...
... of classical and romantic fancy, of pagan and Christian theology, of
real and fictitious history, of tragical and comic incidents, of familiar and heroic manners, and of satirical and
sublime ... Chrestien's
'Perceval' it will be found, again and again, in the prose of Sir Thomas Malory; it will be found in many
ballads and ballad burdens, in 'William and Margaret,' in 'Binnorie,' ... Rossettis in England and of Longfellow and Dr. Parsons
in America that any poetry ofa really Dantesque inspiration and, at the same time, of high original value was
added to our literature. [18]
The...
... Beelzebub, and a crowd of allegorical personages. But
the battles and debats ofa chivalric age were not only religious; there are battles of wine and water, battles of
fast and feasting, battles of ... his character as a man, he belonged to an age of
philosophers and sentimentalists, an age of "virtue" and "nature." Shakespeare's translation is as strange as
that of his ... Statira, daughter of
Darius; the Prince de Conde masks in Cleopatre as Coriolan; Pharamond is the Grand Monarch in disguise.
Notwithstanding the faded gallantries and amorous casuistry of La Calprenede's...
... Major magnates and vintners would have had their own ox
carts, but others would have had to hire a carter at a rate of
appoximately 1d a day per tun. The allocation of wine for each member
of the ... Salisbury, known as the
Kingmaker, was also a Knight of the Garter, the Captain of Calais and
the Constable of Dover Castle and owned huge estates all around the
country. He had married his daughters ... was also a health angle to a
16
feet ofa ship’s hold became the internationally accepted measure of a
ship’s capacity; to this day we define ships in terms of tonnage (for
which, read tunnage)....
... of the laws
of nature, makes him somewhat ofa magician. Like Daedalus, he belongs to
a category of famous smiths appearing in myths and legends that probably
express the wonder aroused by early ... of
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literature / ... be of late origin, like Sigurđarkvi a skamma and Atlamỏl in
grổnlensku (The Greenland lay of Atli), all products of an indigenous
Icelandic development under the influence of oral sagas that had,...
... equal."
Then Arthur was sad no longer. He did as Merlin advised, and had a great round table made, at which there
was a seat for each one of his knights. After that there was no more quarreling ... Romans were not pleased with only half of the dead king's wealth. They wanted the whole. So
they came and took it by force. Boadicea was a very brave woman. She was not afraid of the Romans, ... horror of war had filled the land for so many
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was really to blame for it. So Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon fled away to that part of France called
Brittany, where they remained...
... entailing the bestowal of several pounds on the Hungarian state steamers and railways. As for the
sandjak of Novi-Pazar, it was turned into a veritable Tibet, and a legend was spread abroad that ... Ferdinand's arrival in Bulgaria was celebrated with much
rejoicing at the ancient capital of Tirnovo, and was marred only by the news of the terrible massacre of
Bulgars by Turks at Kochana ... of Macedonia, including Salonika and all the Aegean coast (except Chalcidice), Okhrida, and Monastir;
Greece claimed all southern Macedonia, and Serbia parts of northern and central Macedonia...
... but a new act of aggression soon called for reprisals, and at the head of an
immense naval armament Hongi set out for the waters of the Waitemata. Clad in his
helmet and coat of mail, he declaimed ... enemy's stockade at
Mokoia, and was only saved by his armour from sudden death bya treacherous bullet.
Hinaki would grant no satisfaction; a general assault took place, and after a desperate ...
motives—Dismissal of Henry Williams by C.M.S.—Removal to Pakaraka—
Subsequent historyof Bay of Islands.
CHAPTER XI.
SACRIFICE AND HEALING (1850-1856).
Selwyn visits Chatham Islands—Melanesia—Progress at...
...
The accounts also stated what days' works were due from each tenant according to the
season of the year, and at the end of each year there was a careful valuation of live and
dead stock.[129] ... century a lease of 2 acres of arable land in Nowton,
Suffolk, let the land at 6d. an acre per annum for a term of six years.[150] It contains
no clauses about cultivation; the landlord warrants ... years after the Peasants' Revolt another attempt was made to regulate
agricultural wages by the statute 12 Ric. II, c. 4, which stated that 'the hires of the said
servants and labourers...
... seemed certain. A French army was within three days' march of
Vienna; it captured the Bohemian capital, Prague.
It was then that Maria Theresa made her famous appeal to the Hungarians, and the ... found a trading-house and an Indian village called Yamacraw. The chief of this
little tribe was Tomochichi; and the trader's name was Musgrove, married to a half-breed, named Mary. By an
ancient ... the spoils; France, Bavaria, Saxony, Sardinia, and Spain formed an
alliance with Prussia. Only England, in her antagonism to France, made protest purely diplomatic. Austria
was assailed from every...
... was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and
calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and
dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.”
Aristotle says that mathematics ... the quadrature of the circle. On this account it
is called the quadratrix.
The Pythagoreans had shown that the diagonal ofa square
is the side of another square having double the area of the
original ... symbol of recognition
by the Pythagoreans, and was called by them Health.
Pythagoras called the sphere the most beautiful of all
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