Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 1Robert Chambers |
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... light on the history of our language at perhaps the most important period of its existence . A specimen , in which the passage already given from Wace is translated , is presented in the sequel . With refe- rence to a larger extract ...
... light on the history of our language at perhaps the most important period of its existence . A specimen , in which the passage already given from Wace is translated , is presented in the sequel . With refe- rence to a larger extract ...
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... light.3 The king of Tars came also , The Soudan battle for to do , With mony a Christian knight . Either host gan other assail , There began a strong batail , That grisly was of sight , Three heathen again two Christian men , And felled ...
... light.3 The king of Tars came also , The Soudan battle for to do , With mony a Christian knight . Either host gan other assail , There began a strong batail , That grisly was of sight , Three heathen again two Christian men , And felled ...
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... light of the fourteenth century , is one entitled the Riches of Chaucer , by C. C. Clarke ( two volumes , 1835 ) , in which the best pieces are given , with only the spelling modernised . An edition of the Can- terbury Tales was ...
... light of the fourteenth century , is one entitled the Riches of Chaucer , by C. C. Clarke ( two volumes , 1835 ) , in which the best pieces are given , with only the spelling modernised . An edition of the Can- terbury Tales was ...
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... light , To wood - ward will I flee . If that ye will all this fulfill , Do't shortly as ye can : Else will I to the green wood go , Alone , a banished man . SHE . - I shall , as now , do more for you , Than ' longeth to womanheed , To ...
... light , To wood - ward will I flee . If that ye will all this fulfill , Do't shortly as ye can : Else will I to the green wood go , Alone , a banished man . SHE . - I shall , as now , do more for you , Than ' longeth to womanheed , To ...
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... light e'en peeping in our eyes , But he is up , and to his work yrun ; But let the night's black misty mantles rise , And with foul dark never so much disguise The fair bright day , yet ceaseth he no while , But hath his candles to ...
... light e'en peeping in our eyes , But he is up , and to his work yrun ; But let the night's black misty mantles rise , And with foul dark never so much disguise The fair bright day , yet ceaseth he no while , But hath his candles to ...
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