A Compendium of English Literature, chronologically arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ... Stereotype editionE. C. & J. Biddle, 1850 - 776 pages |
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... look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find , that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , eithers common language of this land , in his time . And not only Bede , but king Alfred ...
... look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find , that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , eithers common language of this land , in his time . And not only Bede , but king Alfred ...
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... look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honor the Leaf , which abideth with the root , notwithstanding the winter storms and frosts , are they which follow virtue and true merit , without regarding worldly respects . Such ...
... look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honor the Leaf , which abideth with the root , notwithstanding the winter storms and frosts , are they which follow virtue and true merit , without regarding worldly respects . Such ...
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... look it did me good . Now was there made , fast by the Touris wall , A garden fair ; 3 and in the corners set An herbere , 4 green ; with wandis long and small Railed about , and so with treeis set Was all the place , and hawthorn ...
... look it did me good . Now was there made , fast by the Touris wall , A garden fair ; 3 and in the corners set An herbere , 4 green ; with wandis long and small Railed about , and so with treeis set Was all the place , and hawthorn ...
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... look up to a star , or to the sun itself : or how any should value himself because his cloth is made of finer thread ; for , how fine soever that thread may be , it was once no better than the fleece of a sheep , and that sheep was a ...
... look up to a star , or to the sun itself : or how any should value himself because his cloth is made of finer thread ; for , how fine soever that thread may be , it was once no better than the fleece of a sheep , and that sheep was a ...
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... Look'd in death's face and smiled , death standing by . In spite of Rome , for England's faith he stood , And in the flames he seal'd it with his blood . It rests on indubitable evidence that Tyndale's voice was hardly hushed in death ...
... Look'd in death's face and smiled , death standing by . In spite of Rome , for England's faith he stood , And in the flames he seal'd it with his blood . It rests on indubitable evidence that Tyndale's voice was hardly hushed in death ...
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