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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... words : 6 This narrow place is most unlike that other that we formerly knew , high in heaven's kingdom , which my ... words in the line be- ginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the first word on ...
... words : 6 This narrow place is most unlike that other that we formerly knew , high in heaven's kingdom , which my ... words in the line be- ginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the first word on ...
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... words , in order that he might be understood by unlettered people . As he was really successful in writing simply ... words were softened down until they were entirely lost . Dr Johnson expresses his opinion , that the Normans ...
... words , in order that he might be understood by unlettered people . As he was really successful in writing simply ... words were softened down until they were entirely lost . Dr Johnson expresses his opinion , that the Normans ...
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... words , but its grammatical structure is considerably altered . There is a metrical Saxon or English trans- lation , by one LAYAMON , a priest of Ernely , on the | Severn , from the Brut d'Angleterre of Wace . Its date is not ...
... words , but its grammatical structure is considerably altered . There is a metrical Saxon or English trans- lation , by one LAYAMON , a priest of Ernely , on the | Severn , from the Brut d'Angleterre of Wace . Its date is not ...
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... words of the dame are- ] Now have ye heard mine answer ; To God , madam , I you betake , And warneth all for my sake , Of love that they be not idle . And bid then think of my bridle . [ The Envious Man and the Miser . ] Of. [ It is ...
... words of the dame are- ] Now have ye heard mine answer ; To God , madam , I you betake , And warneth all for my sake , Of love that they be not idle . And bid then think of my bridle . [ The Envious Man and the Miser . ] Of. [ It is ...
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... words and now soft , That made them to disputen oft ; And each his reason had , And thus with tales he them led ... word was not so soon spoke , That his one ee anon was loke : And his fellow forthwith also Was blind on both his ...
... words and now soft , That made them to disputen oft ; And each his reason had , And thus with tales he them led ... word was not so soon spoke , That his one ee anon was loke : And his fellow forthwith also Was blind on both his ...
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