Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page 129
... sometime like an antique ; sometyme plited , and anone after unplited ; and not being contented with that , thou ... sometimes ridiculously " stuck with ostrige , cranes , parrots , bittons , cockes and capons feathers , " signifying ...
... sometime like an antique ; sometyme plited , and anone after unplited ; and not being contented with that , thou ... sometimes ridiculously " stuck with ostrige , cranes , parrots , bittons , cockes and capons feathers , " signifying ...
Page 141
... Corney's possession : - " John Egerton told me that he [ Thomson ] lived some time with Mil- lan , " i.e. John Egerton , the bookseller , one of Millan's succes- sors at Whitehall . is not so wonderful as the single fact , put vi.
... Corney's possession : - " John Egerton told me that he [ Thomson ] lived some time with Mil- lan , " i.e. John Egerton , the bookseller , one of Millan's succes- sors at Whitehall . is not so wonderful as the single fact , put vi.
Page 141
... some time , that he might prosecute his design in full tranquillity . The subject has been described as- " Worthy a Thomson's muse , a Frederick's ear ; " and the poem was published in June 1737. In 1737 he was therefore a near ...
... some time , that he might prosecute his design in full tranquillity . The subject has been described as- " Worthy a Thomson's muse , a Frederick's ear ; " and the poem was published in June 1737. In 1737 he was therefore a near ...
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