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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... writing , Chair of Bede , - Illumination - a Minstrel , Portrait of Chaucer , Chaucer's Tomb , Tabard Inn , Southwark , Portrait of Gower , Cathedral of Aberdeen , View of Lochleven , · 1 Autograph of Sir Philip Sidney , · 3 Portrait of ...
... writing , Chair of Bede , - Illumination - a Minstrel , Portrait of Chaucer , Chaucer's Tomb , Tabard Inn , Southwark , Portrait of Gower , Cathedral of Aberdeen , View of Lochleven , · 1 Autograph of Sir Philip Sidney , · 3 Portrait of ...
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... writer . He was born at St Albans in the year 1300 , and received the liberal education requisite for the profession ... writes from his own observation , he makes no effort at either embellishment or exaggeration . Hence it is not ...
... writer . He was born at St Albans in the year 1300 , and received the liberal education requisite for the profession ... writes from his own observation , he makes no effort at either embellishment or exaggeration . Hence it is not ...
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... write , Towards her golden hair and rich attire , In fretwise couchit with pearlis white And great balas leaming as ... writer are entitled , The History of Thebes , The Fall of Princes , and The Destruction of Troy . He had travelled in ...
... write , Towards her golden hair and rich attire , In fretwise couchit with pearlis white And great balas leaming as ... writer are entitled , The History of Thebes , The Fall of Princes , and The Destruction of Troy . He had travelled in ...
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... write two ages past , The third now coming in . Hang up , therefore , the bit Of thy young wanton time ; And thou that therein beaten art , The happiest life define : Whereat I sighed , and said , Farewell my wonted joy , Truss up thy ...
... write two ages past , The third now coming in . Hang up , therefore , the bit Of thy young wanton time ; And thou that therein beaten art , The happiest life define : Whereat I sighed , and said , Farewell my wonted joy , Truss up thy ...
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... write . Praying you all that this do read , To trust it as you do your creed ; And not to think I change my weed , For I am as I am , however I speed . But how that is I leave to you ; Judge as ye list , false or true , Ye know no more ...
... write . Praying you all that this do read , To trust it as you do your creed ; And not to think I change my weed , For I am as I am , however I speed . But how that is I leave to you ; Judge as ye list , false or true , Ye know no more ...
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