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 - English literature |
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... words : This narrow place is most unlike that other that we formerly knew , high in heaven's kingdom , which my ... words in the line be- ginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the first word on which the ...
... words : This narrow place is most unlike that other that we formerly knew , high in heaven's kingdom , which my ... words in the line be- ginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the first word on which the ...
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... words , in order that he might be understood by unlettered people . As he was really successful in writing simply ... words were softened down until they were entirely lost . Dr Johnson expresses his opinion , that the Normans affected ...
... words , in order that he might be understood by unlettered people . As he was really successful in writing simply ... words were softened down until they were entirely lost . Dr Johnson expresses his opinion , that the Normans affected ...
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... words , but its grammatical structure is considerably It altered . There is a metrical Saxon or English trans- lation , by one LAYAMON , a priest of Ernely , on the Severn , from the Brut d'Angleterre of Wace . Its date is not ...
... words , but its grammatical structure is considerably It altered . There is a metrical Saxon or English trans- lation , by one LAYAMON , a priest of Ernely , on the Severn , from the Brut d'Angleterre of Wace . Its date is not ...
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... words of the dame are- ] Now have ye heard mine answer ; To God , madam , I you betake , And warneth all for my sake , Of love that they be not idle . And bid them think of my bridle . [ It is scarcely necessary to remark , that the ...
... words of the dame are- ] Now have ye heard mine answer ; To God , madam , I you betake , And warneth all for my sake , Of love that they be not idle . And bid them think of my bridle . [ It is scarcely necessary to remark , that the ...
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... words and now soft , That made them to disputen oft ; And each his reason had , And thus with tales he them led ... word was not so soon spoke , That his one ee anon was loke : And his fellow forthwith also Was blind on both his eyes two ...
... words and now soft , That made them to disputen oft ; And each his reason had , And thus with tales he them led ... word was not so soon spoke , That his one ee anon was loke : And his fellow forthwith also Was blind on both his eyes two ...
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afterwards Anglo-Saxon anon beauty Ben Jonson Cædmon Cæsar called Canterbury Tales Chaucer coude court dance death delight doth dread Earl England English eyes Faery Queen fair Fawdon fear flowers frae GEOFFREY CHAUCER Geoffrey of Monmouth give gold grace gude hand hast hath heard heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour Jack Cade JOHN 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 prose Queen quoth reign rich richt Robert Curthose saith Saracens Scotland Shakspeare sing song soul sould Discretion Spenser St Serf sweet tell thee ther thine thing thou thought tongue translation unto verse wald Wallace wanton wassail weel Wickliffe wind withouten words writers youth