Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 1Gould and Lincoln, 1856 |
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... Body , RICHARD BAXTER , • Cowley's Love of Retirement , DR THOMAS BURNET , The final Conflagration of the Globe , Rebuke of Human Pride , The Dry Bed of the Ocean , DR HENRY MORE , · Devout Contemplation of the Works of God , Nature of ...
... Body , RICHARD BAXTER , • Cowley's Love of Retirement , DR THOMAS BURNET , The final Conflagration of the Globe , Rebuke of Human Pride , The Dry Bed of the Ocean , DR HENRY MORE , · Devout Contemplation of the Works of God , Nature of ...
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... body and soul wash from all sin , dhurh gastlice mihte . through ghostly might . Cynewulf , bishop of Winchester , Wulfstan , arch- bishop of York , and some others , bring down the list of Anglo - Saxon authors to the Conquest , giving ...
... body and soul wash from all sin , dhurh gastlice mihte . through ghostly might . Cynewulf , bishop of Winchester , Wulfstan , arch- bishop of York , and some others , bring down the list of Anglo - Saxon authors to the Conquest , giving ...
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... body strong . And slew to ground here and there , ac the heathen side Wax ever wersh7 and wersh of folk that come wide . So that this Christianmen were all ground ney . Tho Beaumond with his host this great sorrow y - sey , He and ...
... body strong . And slew to ground here and there , ac the heathen side Wax ever wersh7 and wersh of folk that come wide . So that this Christianmen were all ground ney . Tho Beaumond with his host this great sorrow y - sey , He and ...
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... body she was right avenant , Of fair colour with sweet semblant . Her attire full well it seemed , Mervelik the king she queemed.12 Of our measure was he glad , For of that maiden he wax all mad . Drunkenness the fiend wrought , Of that ...
... body she was right avenant , Of fair colour with sweet semblant . Her attire full well it seemed , Mervelik the king she queemed.12 Of our measure was he glad , For of that maiden he wax all mad . Drunkenness the fiend wrought , Of that ...
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... body they to - tear ; Them thought the Jewés rent him not enough ; And each of them at other's sinné laugh . And right anon in comen tombesteres 18 Fetis19 and small , and youngé fruitesteres , 20 1 Message . 5 Undone . 9 Have pity . 2 ...
... body they to - tear ; Them thought the Jewés rent him not enough ; And each of them at other's sinné laugh . And right anon in comen tombesteres 18 Fetis19 and small , and youngé fruitesteres , 20 1 Message . 5 Undone . 9 Have pity . 2 ...
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