Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 1Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers |
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... Sleep , 99 Scene in the Council - room of the Protector Gloucester , 64 Description of Belphoebe , 99 SIR THOMAS MORE , 65 Fable of the Oak and the Brier , 99 Specimen of More's Juvenile Poetry , note , 65 From the Epithalamion , 100 ...
... Sleep , 99 Scene in the Council - room of the Protector Gloucester , 64 Description of Belphoebe , 99 SIR THOMAS MORE , 65 Fable of the Oak and the Brier , 99 Specimen of More's Juvenile Poetry , note , 65 From the Epithalamion , 100 ...
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... Sleep , 225 · 176 Song to Pan , at the conclusion of the Faithful Shep- GEORGE WHETSTONE , : 176 herdess , . 225 Account of the London Theatres , 176 GEORGE CHAPMAN , 225 JOHN LYLY , 177 Extract from Bussy d'Ambois , 226 Cupid and ...
... Sleep , 225 · 176 Song to Pan , at the conclusion of the Faithful Shep- GEORGE WHETSTONE , : 176 herdess , . 225 Account of the London Theatres , 176 GEORGE CHAPMAN , 225 JOHN LYLY , 177 Extract from Bussy d'Ambois , 226 Cupid and ...
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... sleep , a stranger appeared to him , and , saluting him by his name said : " Cadmon , sing me something . " Cædmon answered : " I know nothing to sing ; for my incapacity in this respect was the cause of my leaving the hall to come ...
... sleep , a stranger appeared to him , and , saluting him by his name said : " Cadmon , sing me something . " Cædmon answered : " I know nothing to sing ; for my incapacity in this respect was the cause of my leaving the hall to come ...
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... sleep the taste may.come ; And if ye no rest can take , All night minstrels for you shall wake . IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS OF CHAUCER . Hitherto , we have seen English poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many ...
... sleep the taste may.come ; And if ye no rest can take , All night minstrels for you shall wake . IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS OF CHAUCER . Hitherto , we have seen English poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many ...
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... sleep a series of visions ; in describing these , he exposes the corruptions of society , 1 High . 2 Call . 3 Age . * A popular edition of this poem has been published by Mr Wright . The lines are there divided , as we believe they ...
... sleep a series of visions ; in describing these , he exposes the corruptions of society , 1 High . 2 Call . 3 Age . * A popular edition of this poem has been published by Mr Wright . The lines are there divided , as we believe they ...
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