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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... writer which occurs in the annals of English Literature , is the ancient and renowned traveller , Sir John ... writing , in three divers tongues , English , French , and Latine . ? Being arrived again in England , and having seene the ...
... writer which occurs in the annals of English Literature , is the ancient and renowned traveller , Sir John ... writing , in three divers tongues , English , French , and Latine . ? Being arrived again in England , and having seene the ...
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... writer , " is to an Englishman doubly valuable , as establishing the title of his country to claim as its own , the first example of the liberal and independent gentleman , travelling over the world in the disinterested pursuit of ...
... writer , " is to an Englishman doubly valuable , as establishing the title of his country to claim as its own , the first example of the liberal and independent gentleman , travelling over the world in the disinterested pursuit of ...
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... writer has transmitted to posterity , and in the Canterbury Tales we view the pursuits and employments , the customs ... writes : " But much more I mervaile to consider this , how that the bishops condemning and abolishing all maner of ...
... writer has transmitted to posterity , and in the Canterbury Tales we view the pursuits and employments , the customs ... writes : " But much more I mervaile to consider this , how that the bishops condemning and abolishing all maner of ...
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... write : So hot he loved , that by nightertale10 He slept no more than doth the nightingale : Courteous he was , lowly and serviceable , And carv'd before his father at the table . commodiously lodged . French libre , free . 1 That is ...
... write : So hot he loved , that by nightertale10 He slept no more than doth the nightingale : Courteous he was , lowly and serviceable , And carv'd before his father at the table . commodiously lodged . French libre , free . 1 That is ...
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... write , Toward her golden hair and rich attire , In fret - wise couch'd2 with pearlis white , And greaté balas3 lemyng4 as the fire , With many an emerant and fair sapphire , And on her head a chaplet fresh of hue Of plumys , parted red ...
... write , Toward her golden hair and rich attire , In fret - wise couch'd2 with pearlis white , And greaté balas3 lemyng4 as the fire , With many an emerant and fair sapphire , And on her head a chaplet fresh of hue Of plumys , parted red ...
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