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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... give her lively heat : Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast ; Her sire , an earl ; her dame of princes ' blood : From tender years , in Britain she doth rest With king's child , where she tasteth costly food . Hunsdon did first ...
... give her lively heat : Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast ; Her sire , an earl ; her dame of princes ' blood : From tender years , in Britain she doth rest With king's child , where she tasteth costly food . Hunsdon did first ...
Page 51
... Give place , you ladies , and be gone . Boast not yourselves at all ! For here at hand approacheth one , Whose face will stain you all ! The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone : I wish to have none other books To read ...
... Give place , you ladies , and be gone . Boast not yourselves at all ! For here at hand approacheth one , Whose face will stain you all ! The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone : I wish to have none other books To read ...
Page 56
... give unto the holy man answer . Then , St Germain said to him : I charge thee , in the name of the Lord God , that thou and thine depart from this palace , and resign it and the rule of thy land to him that is more worthy this room than ...
... give unto the holy man answer . Then , St Germain said to him : I charge thee , in the name of the Lord God , that thou and thine depart from this palace , and resign it and the rule of thy land to him that is more worthy this room than ...
Page 61
... give you any ease ? And will his head's being bare cure the madness of yours ? And yet it is won- derful to see how this false notion of pleasure bewitches many , who delight themselves with the fancy of their nobility , and are pleased ...
... give you any ease ? And will his head's being bare cure the madness of yours ? And yet it is won- derful to see how this false notion of pleasure bewitches many , who delight themselves with the fancy of their nobility , and are pleased ...
Page 62
... give or maintain health . But they are not pleasant in themselves , otherwise than as they resist those impressions that our natural infirmity is still making upon us ; and , as a wise man desires rather to avoid diseases than to take ...
... give or maintain health . But they are not pleasant in themselves , otherwise than as they resist those impressions that our natural infirmity is still making upon us ; and , as a wise man desires rather to avoid diseases than to take ...
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