The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 1J. Johnson; J. Nichols and son; R. Baldwin; F. and C. Rivington; W. Otridge and Son; Leigh and Sotheby; R. Faulder and Son; G. Nicol and Son; T. Payne; G. Robinson; Wilkie and Robinson; C. Davies; T. Egerton; Scatcherd and Letterman; J. Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R. Lea; J. Nunn; Lackington, Allen, and Company; J. Stockdale; Cuthell and Martin; Clarke and Sons; J. White and Company; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; J. Barker; John Richardson; J.M. Richardson; J. Carpenter; B. Crosby; E. Jeffery; J. Murray; W. Miller; J. and A. Arch; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J. Booker; S. Bagster; J. Harding; J. Mackinlay; J. Hatchard; R.H. Evans; Matthews and Leigh; J. Mawman; J. Booth; J. Asperne; P. and W. Wynne; and W. Grace, Deighton and Son at Cambridge; and Wilson and Son at York, 1810 |
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... light on his merit as a poet and a scholar , with which alone we are now concerned . A formal life of Chaucer , as Mr. Tyrwhitt has observed , must now be a very meagre narration , if composed only of facts ; and , we may add , a very ...
... light on his merit as a poet and a scholar , with which alone we are now concerned . A formal life of Chaucer , as Mr. Tyrwhitt has observed , must now be a very meagre narration , if composed only of facts ; and , we may add , a very ...
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... light , And spake these same wordes all on hight . " The god of love , a ! benedicite , How mighty and how grete a lord is he ? Again his might ther gainen non obstacles , He may be cleped a God for his miracles . For he can maken at ...
... light , And spake these same wordes all on hight . " The god of love , a ! benedicite , How mighty and how grete a lord is he ? Again his might ther gainen non obstacles , He may be cleped a God for his miracles . For he can maken at ...
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... light in at the dore shone , For window on the wall ne was ther none , Thurgh which men mighten any light discerne . The dore was all of athamant eterne , Yclenched overthwart and endelong With yren tough , and for to make it strong ...
... light in at the dore shone , For window on the wall ne was ther none , Thurgh which men mighten any light discerne . The dore was all of athamant eterne , Yclenched overthwart and endelong With yren tough , and for to make it strong ...
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... light , That was not wont to see the Sonne bright ; Ne how the fire was couched first with stre , And than with drie stickes cloven a - thre , And than with grene wood and spicerie , And than with cloth of gold and with perrie , And ...
... light , That was not wont to see the Sonne bright ; Ne how the fire was couched first with stre , And than with drie stickes cloven a - thre , And than with grene wood and spicerie , And than with cloth of gold and with perrie , And ...
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... light waget ; Ful faire and thicke ben the pointes set . And therupon he had a gay surplise , As white as is the blosme upon the rise . A mery child he was , so God me save ; Wel coud he leten blod , and clippe , and shave , And make a ...
... light waget ; Ful faire and thicke ben the pointes set . And therupon he had a gay surplise , As white as is the blosme upon the rise . A mery child he was , so God me save ; Wel coud he leten blod , and clippe , and shave , And make a ...
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