 | Choice literature - 1880 - 432 pages
...often regarded as a pure American expression, " I guess," is really very old English. Chaucer says: Her yellow hair was braided in a tress, Behind her back, a yard long, I guess ; and Locke says, " He whose design it is to excel in English poetry would not,... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...observance. '' This maketh Emelie have remembrance To do honour to May, and for to rise. Y-cloth-ed was she fresh, for to devise ; Her yellow hair was...her back, a yard-e long I guess ; And in the garden at the sun up-rist She walketh up and down where as she list. She gathereth flowers, partie white and... | |
 | 1881 - 738 pages
...regarded as a pure American expression, ' I guess,' is really very old English. Chaucer says : — Her yellow hair was braided in a tress, Behind her back, a yard long•, I guess ; and Locke says, ' He whose design it is to excel in English poetry would not,... | |
 | Alfred Rimmer - Cities and towns - 1881 - 418 pages
...often regarded as a pure American expression, " I guess," is really very old English. Chaucer says — Her yellow hair was braided in a tress, Behind her back, a yard long, I guess ; and Locke says, "He whose design it is to excel in English poetry would not, I... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1881 - 296 pages
...your mistress has given your master here.' (Vanburgh, The Mistake, aet i, sc I.) Chaucer sings : ' Her yellow hair was braided in a tress, Behind her back, a yard long, I fuat.' — (Iftraine.) ' He whose design it is to excel in English poetry would not, I... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - English literature - 1881 - 384 pages
...your mistress has given your master here.' (Vanburgh, The Mistake, act i, sc. i .) Chaucer sings : ' Her yellow hair was braided in a tress, Behind her back, a yard long, I guess.' — (Hcivinc.) ' He whose design it is to excel in English poetiy would not, I... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1024 pages
...may appear from the following extracts : " Amylia will bo lov'd as I mote gheese." — Spent tr. " Her yellow hair was braided in a tress Behind her back, a yarde long, I guess." — I'linucti: " Already by thy reasoning this I guess." — Milton. " If thou canst the harder reason... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...For love shal me geve strenglhe and hardyknesse, To make my wounde large ynogh 1 gesse. — CHAUCER. Her yellow hair was braided in a tress Behind her back, a yarde long, I guess. — IBID. Amylia will be lov'd as I mote gheese. — SPENSBR. Richard Grant White has said, " If there... | |
 | Agnes Blake Poor - 1893 - 328 pages
...counterbalanced by his irritation at seeing her scrubbing away on Jonah's greasy shirts and muddy stockings. " Her yellow hair was braided in a tress, Behind her back a yarde long, I guess ; " and as he gazed from the window, unseen himself, half feeling that he ought not, and yet unable to leave... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...thine observance!" This maketh Emilie have remembrance To do honour to May, and for to rise, Yclothed was she fresh for to devise. Her yellow hair was braided in a tress, Behind her back, a yard long, I guess ; And in her garden, as the sun uprist, She walked up and down, and as her list,... | |
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Yclothed was she, fresh for to devise : Her yellow hair was braided in a tress, Behind her back, a yarde* long I guess : And in the garden, at the... 
