Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury tales.- v. 3. Troylus and Cryseyde, etc.-v. 4. Romaunt of the rose, etcG. Bell, 1885 |
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... nature , That no disdeyn the maker had of kynde His sone in blood and fleissh to clothe and wynde . ' Withinne the cloyster of thi blisful sydes , Took mannes schap the eternal love and pees , That of the trine compas lord and guyde is ...
... nature , That no disdeyn the maker had of kynde His sone in blood and fleissh to clothe and wynde . ' Withinne the cloyster of thi blisful sydes , Took mannes schap the eternal love and pees , That of the trine compas lord and guyde is ...
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... natural philosophy , from Arabia . Jeber , an Arab philosopher , who flourished in the seventh century , wrote a book entitled Lapis Philosophorum , of which Boerhaave declares that , except the fancies about the philosopher's stone ...
... natural philosophy , from Arabia . Jeber , an Arab philosopher , who flourished in the seventh century , wrote a book entitled Lapis Philosophorum , of which Boerhaave declares that , except the fancies about the philosopher's stone ...
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... nature , gave to his still more illustrious namesake the clue by which he was enabled to indicate to his successors the passage into her most secret labyrinths . The belief that comparatively worth- less substances might be chemically ...
... nature , gave to his still more illustrious namesake the clue by which he was enabled to indicate to his successors the passage into her most secret labyrinths . The belief that comparatively worth- less substances might be chemically ...
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... Nature hath with sovereyn diligence I - formed hir in so gret excellence , 2 As though sche wolde say , ' Lo , I , Nature , Thus can I forme and peynte a creature , Whan that me lust ; who can me counterfete ? Pigmalion ? nought ...
... Nature hath with sovereyn diligence I - formed hir in so gret excellence , 2 As though sche wolde say , ' Lo , I , Nature , Thus can I forme and peynte a creature , Whan that me lust ; who can me counterfete ? Pigmalion ? nought ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Bell. In which that nature hath suche delite . For right as sche can peynte a lili white And rody a rose , right with such peynture Sche peynted hath this noble creature Er sche was born , upon her limes fre ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Bell. In which that nature hath suche delite . For right as sche can peynte a lili white And rody a rose , right with such peynture Sche peynted hath this noble creature Er sche was born , upon her limes fre ...
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