Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1871 |
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... tell loose tales of successful love and licentious monks while the plague is desolating the country around them . The tales of Chaucer have a more pleasing origin . A com- pany of pilgrims , consisting of twenty - nine ' sundry folk ...
... tell loose tales of successful love and licentious monks while the plague is desolating the country around them . The tales of Chaucer have a more pleasing origin . A com- pany of pilgrims , consisting of twenty - nine ' sundry folk ...
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... tell , Beside a toun men clepen Baldeswell . Tucked he was , as is a frere , aboute ; And ever he rode the hinderest of the route . A Sompnour was ther with us in that place , That hadde a fire - red cherubinnes face , With scalled ...
... tell , Beside a toun men clepen Baldeswell . Tucked he was , as is a frere , aboute ; And ever he rode the hinderest of the route . A Sompnour was ther with us in that place , That hadde a fire - red cherubinnes face , With scalled ...
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... tell them thus from me , Their time most happy is , If to their time they reason had , To know the truth of this . The Means to attain Happy Life . Martial , the things that do attain The happy life , be these , I find , The riches left ...
... tell them thus from me , Their time most happy is , If to their time they reason had , To know the truth of this . The Means to attain Happy Life . Martial , the things that do attain The happy life , be these , I find , The riches left ...
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... tell you a story which hap- pened at Cambridge . Master Bilney , or rather Saint Biney , that suffered death for God's word's sake , the BAILE Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge , for I may thank him , next to ...
... tell you a story which hap- pened at Cambridge . Master Bilney , or rather Saint Biney , that suffered death for God's word's sake , the BAILE Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge , for I may thank him , next to ...
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... tell me , if ye can , what is the cause of this great rising of the sands and shelves here about this haven , the which stop it up , so that no ships can arrive here ? Ye are the eldest man that I can espy in all this company , so that ...
... tell me , if ye can , what is the cause of this great rising of the sands and shelves here about this haven , the which stop it up , so that no ships can arrive here ? Ye are the eldest man that I can espy in all this company , so that ...
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