Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 27Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... mind if he lovely " " So alone , so What can be the words of could . The meaning of the passage in which the word occurs , may be taken in simple prose as solitary in you is that feeling of pity " . more dignified ? ( remember , they ...
... mind if he lovely " " So alone , so What can be the words of could . The meaning of the passage in which the word occurs , may be taken in simple prose as solitary in you is that feeling of pity " . more dignified ? ( remember , they ...
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Percy Society. PREFACE . In reading history , the mind almost instinctively clothes the personages discoursed of in some garb , even if it be as vague as Dr. Johnson's boyish remembrance of Queen Anne : - " a confused , but somehow a ...
Percy Society. PREFACE . In reading history , the mind almost instinctively clothes the personages discoursed of in some garb , even if it be as vague as Dr. Johnson's boyish remembrance of Queen Anne : - " a confused , but somehow a ...
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... mind the beaux altho ' they look big , And strut along in their ramelie wigs , With their long ruffles and muffetees , And we , in our turn , will laugh at them , To see such fops and finical men ; And see them folded up like a letter ...
... mind the beaux altho ' they look big , And strut along in their ramelie wigs , With their long ruffles and muffetees , And we , in our turn , will laugh at them , To see such fops and finical men ; And see them folded up like a letter ...
Contents
SATIRICAL SONGS AND POEMS ON COSTUME | 1 |
THE MERCER 7 | 7 |
THE SHOEMAKER 16 | 16 |
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