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... English poets from Spenser down to Swinburne have been glad to acknowledge the debt they owed to " Father Chaucer . " Chaucer has been called the day - star of English xi AN OUTLINE SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ENG- LISH POETRY CHAUCER.
... English poets from Spenser down to Swinburne have been glad to acknowledge the debt they owed to " Father Chaucer . " Chaucer has been called the day - star of English xi AN OUTLINE SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ENG- LISH POETRY CHAUCER.
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Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long. Chaucer has been called the day - star of English poetry , but the full day did not dawn for more than a century after his death . During the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth ...
Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long. Chaucer has been called the day - star of English poetry , but the full day did not dawn for more than a century after his death . During the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth ...
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... star to every wandering bark , " Whose worth's unknown , although his height be taken . Love's not Time's fool , though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks , But ...
... star to every wandering bark , " Whose worth's unknown , although his height be taken . Love's not Time's fool , though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks , But ...
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... star that heaven doth shew , And every herb that sips the dew , Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain . These pleasures , Melancholy , give ; And I with thee will choose to live . SONNETS 170 175 ON HIS BEING ...
... star that heaven doth shew , And every herb that sips the dew , Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain . These pleasures , Melancholy , give ; And I with thee will choose to live . SONNETS 170 175 ON HIS BEING ...
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... stars ' light , That downwards fall in dead of night : For in your eyes they sit , and there Fixéd become , as in their sphere . Ask me no more if east or west The Phoenix build her spicy nest : For unto you at last she flies , And in ...
... stars ' light , That downwards fall in dead of night : For in your eyes they sit , and there Fixéd become , as in their sphere . Ask me no more if east or west The Phoenix build her spicy nest : For unto you at last she flies , And in ...
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