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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... Face , 228 Mercy , 188 • . Robin Goodfellow , 229 Solitude preferred to a Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 . Time's Alteration , 230 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined ...
... Face , 228 Mercy , 188 • . Robin Goodfellow , 229 Solitude preferred to a Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 . Time's Alteration , 230 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined ...
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... face The fourthe day toward the ship she went ; But natheless10 she tak'th in good intent 1 Called . Them thought the Jewés rent him not enough ; And each of them at other's sinné laugh . And right anon in comen tombesteres 18 Fetis19 ...
... face The fourthe day toward the ship she went ; But natheless10 she tak'th in good intent 1 Called . Them thought the Jewés rent him not enough ; And each of them at other's sinné laugh . And right anon in comen tombesteres 18 Fetis19 ...
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... face , Sour is thy breath , foul art thou to embrace ; And through thy drunken nose seemeth the soun As though thou saidést aye Sampsoun ! Sampsoun ! And yet , Got wot , Sampsoun drunk ne'er no wine : Thou fallest as it were a stickéd ...
... face , Sour is thy breath , foul art thou to embrace ; And through thy drunken nose seemeth the soun As though thou saidést aye Sampsoun ! Sampsoun ! And yet , Got wot , Sampsoun drunk ne'er no wine : Thou fallest as it were a stickéd ...
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... face There may none earthly thing deface : Crowns on their heads they bare , As each of them a queen were ; That all the gold of Croesus ' hall The least coronal of all Might not have bought , after the worth : Thus comen they ridand ...
... face There may none earthly thing deface : Crowns on their heads they bare , As each of them a queen were ; That all the gold of Croesus ' hall The least coronal of all Might not have bought , after the worth : Thus comen they ridand ...
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... face . And in my head I drew right hastily , And eftesoons I leant it out again , And saw her walk that very womanly , With no wight mo ' , but only women twain . Then gan I study in myself , and sayn , 6 Ah , sweet ! are ye a worldly ...
... face . And in my head I drew right hastily , And eftesoons I leant it out again , And saw her walk that very womanly , With no wight mo ' , but only women twain . Then gan I study in myself , and sayn , 6 Ah , sweet ! are ye a worldly ...
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