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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... Speaking of the gratification which his passion receives from the sense of hearing , he says , that to hear his lady speak is more delicious than to feast on all the dainties that could be compounded by a cook of Lombardy . They are not ...
... Speaking of the gratification which his passion receives from the sense of hearing , he says , that to hear his lady speak is more delicious than to feast on all the dainties that could be compounded by a cook of Lombardy . They are not ...
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... speak thereof I dread . In her was youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richess , and womanly feature , God better wot than my pen can report : Wisdom , largess , estate , and cunning11 sure , In every point so guided her ...
... speak thereof I dread . In her was youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richess , and womanly feature , God better wot than my pen can report : Wisdom , largess , estate , and cunning11 sure , In every point so guided her ...
Page 43
... speak of gifts and almos deeds : Some gives for merit , and some for meeds ; Some , wardly honour to uphie ; Some gives to them that nothing needs ; In Giving sould Discretion be . Some gives for pride and glory vain ; Some gives with ...
... speak of gifts and almos deeds : Some gives for merit , and some for meeds ; Some , wardly honour to uphie ; Some gives to them that nothing needs ; In Giving sould Discretion be . Some gives for pride and glory vain ; Some gives with ...
Page 47
... speak , Do thus unto me say : The white and hoarish hairs , The messengers of age , That show , like lines of true belief , That this life doth assuage ; Bids thee lay hand , and feel Them hanging on my chin . The which do write two ...
... speak , Do thus unto me say : The white and hoarish hairs , The messengers of age , That show , like lines of true belief , That this life doth assuage ; Bids thee lay hand , and feel Them hanging on my chin . The which do write two ...
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... speak Grew , Some Dutch , some language Saracen , And some began to speak Latin . The maister men gan to ga wild , Cryand for trees , they brocht them tyld . Some said , Bring mortar here at ance , Then brocht they to them stocks and ...
... speak Grew , Some Dutch , some language Saracen , And some began to speak Latin . The maister men gan to ga wild , Cryand for trees , they brocht them tyld . Some said , Bring mortar here at ance , Then brocht they to them stocks and ...
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