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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... give her lively heat : Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast ; Her sire , an earl ; her dame of princes ' blood : From tender years , in Britain she doth rest With king's child , where she tasteth costly food . Hunsdon did first ...
... give her lively heat : Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast ; Her sire , an earl ; her dame of princes ' blood : From tender years , in Britain she doth rest With king's child , where she tasteth costly food . Hunsdon did first ...
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... Give place , you ladies , and be gone . Boast not yourselves at all ! For here at hand approacheth one , Whose face will stain you all ! The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone : I wish to have none other books To read ...
... Give place , you ladies , and be gone . Boast not yourselves at all ! For here at hand approacheth one , Whose face will stain you all ! The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone : I wish to have none other books To read ...
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... give unto the holy man answer . Then , St Germain said to him : charge thee , in the name of the Lord God , that thou and thine depart from this palace , and resign it and the rule of thy land to him that is more worthy this room than ...
... give unto the holy man answer . Then , St Germain said to him : charge thee , in the name of the Lord God , that thou and thine depart from this palace , and resign it and the rule of thy land to him that is more worthy this room than ...
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... give you any ease ? And will his head's being bare cure the madness of yours ? And yet it is won- | derful to see how this false notion of pleasure bewitches many , who delight themselves with the fancy of their nobility , and are ...
... give you any ease ? And will his head's being bare cure the madness of yours ? And yet it is won- | derful to see how this false notion of pleasure bewitches many , who delight themselves with the fancy of their nobility , and are ...
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... give or maintain health . But they are not pleasant in themselves , otherwise than as they resist those impressions that our natural infirmity is still making upon us ; and , as a wise man desires rather to avoid diseases than to take ...
... give or maintain health . But they are not pleasant in themselves , otherwise than as they resist those impressions that our natural infirmity is still making upon us ; and , as a wise man desires rather to avoid diseases than to take ...
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Æsop afterwards Andrew Marvell beauty Ben Jonson body breast breath Cædmon Cæsar called church court death delight divine doth Dryden Earl earth England English eyes Faery Queen fair fancy fear fire flowers gentle give grace hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour Hudibras Izaak Walton Jeremy Taylor John John Lesley Jonson king labour lady language learning light live look Lord marriage mind muse nature never night noble nymph o'er passion play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor praise prince Queen racter reign rich Scotland Shakspeare sing sleep song soul speak Spenser spirit St Serf style sweet taste tell thee thine things thou thought tion tongue truth unto verse virtue William Davenant wind wine words write youth