Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 |
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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 , the spelling modernised . An edition of the Can terbury Tales was published , with a learned commen- tary , by Thomas Tyrwhitt ...
... light of the fourteenth century , is one entitled the Riches of Chaucer , by C. C. Clarke ( two volumes , the spelling modernised . An edition of the Can terbury Tales was published , with a learned commen- tary , by Thomas Tyrwhitt ...
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... light , Where did upon the tother side pursue A Nightingale , with sugared notis new , Whose angel feathers as the peacock shone ; This was her song , and of a sentence true , All love is lost but upon God alone . With notis glad , and ...
... light , Where did upon the tother side pursue A Nightingale , with sugared notis new , Whose angel feathers as the peacock shone ; This was her song , and of a sentence true , All love is lost but upon God alone . With notis glad , and ...
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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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