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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... appear , That in this present life now here Nothing abideth in his fairness , Save women aye be found entere , 7 And devoid of all doubleness . The sea eke with his sterné wawes8 Each day yfloweth new again , And by the concourse of his ...
... appear , That in this present life now here Nothing abideth in his fairness , Save women aye be found entere , 7 And devoid of all doubleness . The sea eke with his sterné wawes8 Each day yfloweth new again , And by the concourse of his ...
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... appear , indeed , to have now arrived at a certain degree of ripeness , favourable for the pro- duction of able ... appears , like Chaucer , to have been a retainer of the Lancaster branch of the royal family , which subsequently ...
... appear , indeed , to have now arrived at a certain degree of ripeness , favourable for the pro- duction of able ... appears , like Chaucer , to have been a retainer of the Lancaster branch of the royal family , which subsequently ...
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... appear the most important of all things to the worthy alderman , the succession of officers of all kinds serving in the city of London ; and amongst other events of the reign of Henry V. , the author does not omit to note that a new ...
... appear the most important of all things to the worthy alderman , the succession of officers of all kinds serving in the city of London ; and amongst other events of the reign of Henry V. , the author does not omit to note that a new ...
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... appear utterly burlesque . Among these are plays on John the Baptist's preach- ing ; on the childhood , temptation , passion , and resurrection of Christ ; on the Lord's Supper , and washing the disciples ' feet , & c . All these pieces ...
... appear utterly burlesque . Among these are plays on John the Baptist's preach- ing ; on the childhood , temptation , passion , and resurrection of Christ ; on the Lord's Supper , and washing the disciples ' feet , & c . All these pieces ...
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... appear by contrasting the following verse , as rendered by each translator : [ Tyndale's Version . ] When the Lorde sawe that Lea was despised , he made her frutefull , but Rahel was baren . And Lea conceaved and bare a sonne and called ...
... appear by contrasting the following verse , as rendered by each translator : [ Tyndale's Version . ] When the Lorde sawe that Lea was despised , he made her frutefull , but Rahel was baren . And Lea conceaved and bare a sonne and called ...
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