A catalogue, bibliographical and critical, of early English literature, forming a portion of the library at Bridgewater house, the property of lord F. Egerton, Volume 79 |
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... may come to euerlastyng lyfe in heuen . Amen . " Thus endeth the prologue . " This introduction is followed by the Table of Contents , occupying seven pages , and the story commences on Sign . A. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE . 5.
... may come to euerlastyng lyfe in heuen . Amen . " Thus endeth the prologue . " This introduction is followed by the Table of Contents , occupying seven pages , and the story commences on Sign . A. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE . 5.
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John Payne Collier. pages , and the story commences on Sign . A. vi . Herbert remarked that the prologue savours strongly of the style and manner of Caxton : this is true , and it is very possible that he wrote it with a view to ...
John Payne Collier. pages , and the story commences on Sign . A. vi . Herbert remarked that the prologue savours strongly of the style and manner of Caxton : this is true , and it is very possible that he wrote it with a view to ...
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... lorde legate and many other bysshops and lordys of england , the sayd Luther was openly declared an here- tyck at powlys crosse and all his bokes burnyd . " On Sign . O. vi . , commences the celebrated 10 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE .
... lorde legate and many other bysshops and lordys of england , the sayd Luther was openly declared an here- tyck at powlys crosse and all his bokes burnyd . " On Sign . O. vi . , commences the celebrated 10 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE .
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John Payne Collier. On Sign . O. vi . , commences the celebrated ballad of " The Not - browne Mayde , " which Prior modernized , and which , with many inaccuracies , was inserted by Capel in his Prolusions , p . 3. Mr. Douce ...
John Payne Collier. On Sign . O. vi . , commences the celebrated ballad of " The Not - browne Mayde , " which Prior modernized , and which , with many inaccuracies , was inserted by Capel in his Prolusions , p . 3. Mr. Douce ...
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... commences in what was called Skeltonic verse : " Homo natus Came to heaven gatus . Sir , you doe come to latus , With your shorne patus . Thou art filius populi , Go , go to Constantinopoli , To your maister the Turke , There shall you ...
... commences in what was called Skeltonic verse : " Homo natus Came to heaven gatus . Sir , you doe come to latus , With your shorne patus . Thou art filius populi , Go , go to Constantinopoli , To your maister the Turke , There shall you ...
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Page 146 - His Noble Numbers or his pious Pieces, wherein (amongst other things) he sings the Birth of his Christ, and sighes for his Saviours suffering on the Crosse &c.
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