Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 1Gould and Lincoln, 1856 |
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... Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 Time's Alteration , 230 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined , 231 Description of Night in a Camp , The Blessings of a Shepherd's Life ...
... Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 Time's Alteration , 230 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined , 231 Description of Night in a Camp , The Blessings of a Shepherd's Life ...
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... Court of Love was written about the year 1346 ) ; and Boccaccio ( more poetical in his prose than his verse ) had composed that inimitable century of tales , his Decameron , in which the charms of romance are clothed in all the pure and ...
... Court of Love was written about the year 1346 ) ; and Boccaccio ( more poetical in his prose than his verse ) had composed that inimitable century of tales , his Decameron , in which the charms of romance are clothed in all the pure and ...
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... court , and of legal documents ; and when the Normanised Anglo - Saxon was em- ployed by literary men , it was for the special pur- pose , as they were usually very careful to mention , of conveying instruction to the common people ...
... court , and of legal documents ; and when the Normanised Anglo - Saxon was em- ployed by literary men , it was for the special pur- pose , as they were usually very careful to mention , of conveying instruction to the common people ...
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... court , and of legal documents ; and when the Normanised Anglo - Saxon was em- ployed by literary men , it was for the special pur- pose , as they were usually very careful to mention , of conveying instruction to the common people ...
... court , and of legal documents ; and when the Normanised Anglo - Saxon was em- ployed by literary men , it was for the special pur- pose , as they were usually very careful to mention , of conveying instruction to the common people ...
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... court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand green , And said soon , ' Scot , Martin's fish we wald have ! ' Wallace meekly again answer him gave . ' It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith ...
... court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand green , And said soon , ' Scot , Martin's fish we wald have ! ' Wallace meekly again answer him gave . ' It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith ...
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