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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... play , where , despoiled for the game ; With dazed eyes oft we by gleams of love , Have missed the ball and got sight of our dame , To bait her eyes , which kept the leads above . The gravel ground , with sleeves tied on the helm Of ...
... play , where , despoiled for the game ; With dazed eyes oft we by gleams of love , Have missed the ball and got sight of our dame , To bait her eyes , which kept the leads above . The gravel ground , with sleeves tied on the helm Of ...
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... play , By thy desert their wonted way , Blame not my Lute ! Farewell ! unknown ; for though thou break My strings in spite with great disdain , Yet have I found out for thy sake , Strings for to string my Lute again : And if perchance ...
... play , By thy desert their wonted way , Blame not my Lute ! Farewell ! unknown ; for though thou break My strings in spite with great disdain , Yet have I found out for thy sake , Strings for to string my Lute again : And if perchance ...
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... Play ( or Satire ) of. Three. Estate. 1535. ;. Kitteis. Confession. ,. 1541. ;. The History of Squire Meldrum , 1550 ; The Mo- narchie , 1553. The three first of these poems are moralisings upon the state and government of the kingdom , ...
... Play ( or Satire ) of. Three. Estate. 1535. ;. Kitteis. Confession. ,. 1541. ;. The History of Squire Meldrum , 1550 ; The Mo- narchie , 1553. The three first of these poems are moralisings upon the state and government of the kingdom , ...
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... play . Toxophilus . --That Aristotle and Tully spake earnestly , and as they thought , the earnest matter which they entreat upon , doth plainly prove . And as for your husbandry , it was more probably told with apt words , proper to ...
... play . Toxophilus . --That Aristotle and Tully spake earnestly , and as they thought , the earnest matter which they entreat upon , doth plainly prove . And as for your husbandry , it was more probably told with apt words , proper to ...
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... play , Knit with a golden bauldricke which forelay Athwart her snowy brest , and did divide Her daintie paps ; which , like young fruit in May , Now little gan to swell , and being tide Through her thin weed their places only signifide ...
... play , Knit with a golden bauldricke which forelay Athwart her snowy brest , and did divide Her daintie paps ; which , like young fruit in May , Now little gan to swell , and being tide Through her thin weed their places only signifide ...
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