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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... Delight in Disorder , Disdain Returned , 121 To find God , Approach of Spring , 121 Cherry Ripe , PHINEAS AND GILES FLETCHER , 122 To Corinna , to go a Maying , Happiness of the Shepherd's Life , 122 RICHARD LOVELACE , Decay of Human ...
... Delight in Disorder , Disdain Returned , 121 To find God , Approach of Spring , 121 Cherry Ripe , PHINEAS AND GILES FLETCHER , 122 To Corinna , to go a Maying , Happiness of the Shepherd's Life , 122 RICHARD LOVELACE , Decay of Human ...
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... delight , and we endure this torment , misery in this hell . Oh ! had I the power of my hands ✦ ✦ then with this host I- But around me lie iron bonds ; presseth this cord of chain ; I am powerless ! me have so hard the clasps of hell ...
... delight , and we endure this torment , misery in this hell . Oh ! had I the power of my hands ✦ ✦ then with this host I- But around me lie iron bonds ; presseth this cord of chain ; I am powerless ! me have so hard the clasps of hell ...
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... 7 Esteems . 8 Taught him . 10 Went . 11 Many times . 1 Went . 13 Pagan . 14 According to Pagan law . 4 Know . 6 Delight . • Family . A full comely creature , truth she hight , For 8 FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO 1400 . CYCLOPEDIA OF.
... 7 Esteems . 8 Taught him . 10 Went . 11 Many times . 1 Went . 13 Pagan . 14 According to Pagan law . 4 Know . 6 Delight . • Family . A full comely creature , truth she hight , For 8 FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO 1400 . CYCLOPEDIA OF.
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... delight , Only through letting of my eyen fall , That suddenly my heart became her thrall , For ever of free will , -for of menace There was no token in her sweete face . And in my head I drew right hastily , And eftesoons I leant it ...
... delight , Only through letting of my eyen fall , That suddenly my heart became her thrall , For ever of free will , -for of menace There was no token in her sweete face . And in my head I drew right hastily , And eftesoons I leant it ...
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... delight , Him to forget that her sic virtue gave , And for his heaven receive her colour white : Her golden tressit hairis redomite , 3 Like to Apollo's beamis tho ' they shone , Suld not him blind fro ' love that perfite ; All love is ...
... delight , Him to forget that her sic virtue gave , And for his heaven receive her colour white : Her golden tressit hairis redomite , 3 Like to Apollo's beamis tho ' they shone , Suld not him blind fro ' love that perfite ; All love is ...
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afterwards Anglo-Saxon anon beauty Ben Jonson Cædmon Cæsar called Canterbury Tales Chaucer court dance death delight doth dread Earl England English eyes Faery Queen fair Fawdon fayre fear flowers frae genius GEOFFREY CHAUCER give gold grace gude hand hast hath heard heart heaven Henry Henry VIII hire holy honour JOHN GOWER Jonson king lady language Latin Layamon learned live look Lord merry micht mind mony nature never night noble Petrarch play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor Queen rede reign rich richt Robert Curthose saith Saracens Scotland Shakspeare sing song soul sould Discretion Spenser St Serf sweet Tabard tell thee ther thine thing thought tongue translation truth tway unto verse Wace wald Wallace wanton wassail weel Wel coude Wickliffe wind wine withouten wolde words worthy writers youth