Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 1Robert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1854 - Authors, English |
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... Poor Country Widow , 18 • · How no age is content with his own estate , and how the age of children is the happiest , if they had skill to un- derstand it , 47 The Death of Arcite , 18 Departure of Custance , 19 SIR THOMAS WYATT , JOHN ...
... Poor Country Widow , 18 • · How no age is content with his own estate , and how the age of children is the happiest , if they had skill to un- derstand it , 47 The Death of Arcite , 18 Departure of Custance , 19 SIR THOMAS WYATT , JOHN ...
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... poor have they no pity : and that is her charity ! And they letten hem as lords , her lands lie so broad . Ac there shall come a King and confess you , Religious , And beat you , as the Bible telleth , for breaking of your rule , And ...
... poor have they no pity : and that is her charity ! And they letten hem as lords , her lands lie so broad . Ac there shall come a King and confess you , Religious , And beat you , as the Bible telleth , for breaking of your rule , And ...
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... poor - the parson of a town . But rich he was in holy thought and work ; And thereto a right learned man ; a clerk That Christ's pure gospel would sincerely preach , And his parishioners devoutly teach . Benign he was , and wondrous ...
... poor - the parson of a town . But rich he was in holy thought and work ; And thereto a right learned man ; a clerk That Christ's pure gospel would sincerely preach , And his parishioners devoutly teach . Benign he was , and wondrous ...
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... poor , farewell friendship and fellowship , for thou shalt be all alone withouten any company , but if it be the company of poor folk . And yet saith this Pamphilus , moreover , that they that ben bond and thrall of liniage shuln be ...
... poor , farewell friendship and fellowship , for thou shalt be all alone withouten any company , but if it be the company of poor folk . And yet saith this Pamphilus , moreover , that they that ben bond and thrall of liniage shuln be ...
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... poor ; The Merle said , Why put God so great beauty Who lives merrily he lives mightily ; In ladies , with sic womanly having , Without Gladness availes no Treasure . But gif he would that they suld lovit be ? To love eke nature gave ...
... poor ; The Merle said , Why put God so great beauty Who lives merrily he lives mightily ; In ladies , with sic womanly having , Without Gladness availes no Treasure . But gif he would that they suld lovit be ? To love eke nature gave ...
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Anglo-Saxon anon beauty Ben Jonson bishop Cædmon Cæsar called Canterbury Tales Chaucer court death delight doth dread Earl England English eyes Faery Queen fair Fawdon fear flowers frae give gold grace gude hand hast hath heard heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour Jack Cade Jonson king king's lady language Layamon learning live look Lord Makbeth merry MICHAEL DRAYTON micht mind mony nature never night noble Petrarch play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor praise pray prose Queen quoth racter reign rich richt Robert Curthose saith Saracens Scotland Shakspeare sing song soul sould Discretion Spenser St Serf sweet taste tell thee ther thine thing thou thought tongue translation unto verse wald Wallace wassail weel Wickliffe William wind withouten wood words writer youth