The truth of that is unlikely – although it is possible to see St Paul’s Cathedral from the mound (it’sa view that is protected, as well as, to the west Windsor Castle and the Thames Valley), King Henry VIII was apparently in Wiltshire at the time. The mound, however, was linked...
Both poets, however, see that Protestantism demands not a repudiation of heroic ideals but a redefinition, and each succeeds in re-establishing the claims of heroic achievement. Spenser's poem records and rehearses the heroism of fallen man struggling to be re-educated 'In the virt...
(Gen. viii.2), what prevented the mass of water, several, possibly very many, fathoms deep, which covered, say, the present site of Bagdad, from sweeping seaward in a furious torrent; and, in a very few hours, leaving, not only the “tops of the mountains,” but the whole plain, ...