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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... youth in goodlihede , That for rudeness to speak thereof I dread . In her was youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richess , and womanly feature , God better wot than my pen can report : Wisdom , largess , estate , and ...
... youth in goodlihede , That for rudeness to speak thereof I dread . In her was youth , beauty , with humble aport , Bounty , richess , and womanly feature , God better wot than my pen can report : Wisdom , largess , estate , and ...
Page 41
... youth spend into holiness ? Of young sanctís , grows auld feindís , but fable ; Fye , hypocrite , in yeiris tenderness , Again ' the law of kind thou goes express , That crookit age makes one with youth serene , Whom nature of ...
... youth spend into holiness ? Of young sanctís , grows auld feindís , but fable ; Fye , hypocrite , in yeiris tenderness , Again ' the law of kind thou goes express , That crookit age makes one with youth serene , Whom nature of ...
Page 46
... youth , Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length : The secret groves which oft we made resound , Of pleasant plaint , and of our ladies ' praise , Recording oft what grace each one had found , What hope of speed what dread of long ...
... youth , Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length : The secret groves which oft we made resound , Of pleasant plaint , and of our ladies ' praise , Recording oft what grace each one had found , What hope of speed what dread of long ...
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... severity which were strangely at variance both with the opinions of his youth and the general mildness of his disposition . stupid , as not to acknowledge that he feels a. 59 PROSE WRITERS . SIR THOMAS MORE . ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... severity which were strangely at variance both with the opinions of his youth and the general mildness of his disposition . stupid , as not to acknowledge that he feels a. 59 PROSE WRITERS . SIR THOMAS MORE . ENGLISH LITERATURE .
Page 78
... youth . But This they said , because it was well known , he answered them very wisely . Indeed , ' saith he , ' in youth I was as you are now : and I had twelve fellows well . ' unto myself , but not one of them came to a good end . And ...
... youth . But This they said , because it was well known , he answered them very wisely . Indeed , ' saith he , ' in youth I was as you are now : and I had twelve fellows well . ' unto myself , but not one of them came to a good end . And ...
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