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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... wald have ! ' Wallace meekly again answer him gave . ' It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith should be dealt , in all place , with free heart . ' He bade his child , Give them of our waithing . ' The Southron said ...
... wald have ! ' Wallace meekly again answer him gave . ' It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith should be dealt , in all place , with free heart . ' He bade his child , Give them of our waithing . ' The Southron said ...
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... wald he stand , Of his gude men full great marvel had he , How they were tint through his feil fantasy . Traists richt weel all this was sooth indeed , Suppose that it no point be of the creed . Power they had with Lucifer that fell ...
... wald he stand , Of his gude men full great marvel had he , How they were tint through his feil fantasy . Traists richt weel all this was sooth indeed , Suppose that it no point be of the creed . Power they had with Lucifer that fell ...
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... wald nocht dissever ; Better he trowit in wyage for to speed . But then he was dispalyed of his weed.5 This grace he asked at Lord Clifford , that knicht , To let him have his psalter - book in sicht . He gart a priest it open before ...
... wald nocht dissever ; Better he trowit in wyage for to speed . But then he was dispalyed of his weed.5 This grace he asked at Lord Clifford , that knicht , To let him have his psalter - book in sicht . He gart a priest it open before ...
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... wald he let her run under the strae While wald he wink and play with her buik - hid ; Thus to the silly mouse great harm he did ; While at the last , through fair fortune and hap , Betwixt the dresser and the wall she crap . Syne up in ...
... wald he let her run under the strae While wald he wink and play with her buik - hid ; Thus to the silly mouse great harm he did ; While at the last , through fair fortune and hap , Betwixt the dresser and the wall she crap . Syne up in ...
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... wald for envy bite aff his nese ; 3 His fa ' some by the oxter leads ; Some patters with his mouth on beads , That has his mind all on oppression ; Some becks full law and shaws bare heads , Wad look full heigh were not the Session ...
... wald for envy bite aff his nese ; 3 His fa ' some by the oxter leads ; Some patters with his mouth on beads , That has his mind all on oppression ; Some becks full law and shaws bare heads , Wad look full heigh were not the Session ...
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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