Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... grace a thousand and sixteen , This great creyserie began , that long was i - seen . Of so much folk nyme4 the cross , ne to the holy land go , Me ne see no time before , ne suth nathemo.5 For self women ne beleved , 6 that they ne wend ...
... grace a thousand and sixteen , This great creyserie began , that long was i - seen . Of so much folk nyme4 the cross , ne to the holy land go , Me ne see no time before , ne suth nathemo.5 For self women ne beleved , 6 that they ne wend ...
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... grace . ROBERT LANGLAND . Hitherto , we have seen English poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in which it is employed to point a moral lesson , to describe natural ...
... grace . ROBERT LANGLAND . Hitherto , we have seen English poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in which it is employed to point a moral lesson , to describe natural ...
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... grace : For wind and weather , Almighty God purchase , 15 And bring her home , I can no better say , But in the sea she driveth forth her way .. [ The Pardoner's Tale . ] . In Flanders whilom was a company Of youngé folk that haunteden ...
... grace : For wind and weather , Almighty God purchase , 15 And bring her home , I can no better say , But in the sea she driveth forth her way .. [ The Pardoner's Tale . ] . In Flanders whilom was a company Of youngé folk that haunteden ...
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... grace , Why art thou all forwrapped save thy face ? Why livest thou so long in so great age ? This oldé man ' gan look in his visage , And saidé thus : For I ne cannot find A man , though that I walked into Ind , Neither in city nor in ...
... grace , Why art thou all forwrapped save thy face ? Why livest thou so long in so great age ? This oldé man ' gan look in his visage , And saidé thus : For I ne cannot find A man , though that I walked into Ind , Neither in city nor in ...
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... grace again , And bade that one of them should sain , 2 What thing is him levest to crave , 3 And he it shall of gift have . And over that ke forth with all He saith , that other have shall The double of that his fellow axeth ; And thus ...
... grace again , And bade that one of them should sain , 2 What thing is him levest to crave , 3 And he it shall of gift have . And over that ke forth with all He saith , that other have shall The double of that his fellow axeth ; And thus ...
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