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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... Means to attain Happy Life , The Pardoner's Tale , JOHN BARBOUR , . Departure of Custance , The Good Parson , An ... Mean and Sure Estate , • 25 THOMAS TUSSER , . 26 26 26 Directions for Cultivating a Пop - Garden , Housewifely Physic ...
... Means to attain Happy Life , The Pardoner's Tale , JOHN BARBOUR , . Departure of Custance , The Good Parson , An ... Mean and Sure Estate , • 25 THOMAS TUSSER , . 26 26 26 Directions for Cultivating a Пop - Garden , Housewifely Physic ...
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... means of making clear the transition of the language into its present form , is to present a continuation of these specimens , extending between the time of the Conquest and the reign of Edward L. It is not to be expected that these ...
... means of making clear the transition of the language into its present form , is to present a continuation of these specimens , extending between the time of the Conquest and the reign of Edward L. It is not to be expected that these ...
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... means , and is always first with her offer- ing at church . Among the humbler characters are , a stout carl ' of a miller , a reve or bailiff , and a sompnour or church apparitor , who summoned of- fenders before the archdeacon's court ...
... means , and is always first with her offer- ing at church . Among the humbler characters are , a stout carl ' of a miller , a reve or bailiff , and a sompnour or church apparitor , who summoned of- fenders before the archdeacon's court ...
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... means of preserving literature , men seem to have found it necessary that composition should take a form different from ordinary discourse -a form involving certain measures , breaks , and pauses - not only as appropriate to its being ...
... means of preserving literature , men seem to have found it necessary that composition should take a form different from ordinary discourse -a form involving certain measures , breaks , and pauses - not only as appropriate to its being ...
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... means disposed habitu- by James in some of the negotiations preparatory to ally to take gloomy or desponding views of life . He his marriage with the Princess Margaret , daughter has one poem , of which each stanza ends with ' For of ...
... means disposed habitu- by James in some of the negotiations preparatory to ally to take gloomy or desponding views of life . He his marriage with the Princess Margaret , daughter has one poem , of which each stanza ends with ' For of ...
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