Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 1Robert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1854 - Authors, English |
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... beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded to the earnest solicitations of the Abbess Hilda , and became a monk of her house ; and she ordered him to transfer into verse the whole of the sacred history . We are ...
... beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded to the earnest solicitations of the Abbess Hilda , and became a monk of her house ; and she ordered him to transfer into verse the whole of the sacred history . We are ...
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... beauty , but insensible to the power of love , is represented by the poet as reduced to an obedience to Cupid , by a vision which befell her on a May - day ramble . The opening of this episode is as fol lows : - ] When come was the ...
... beauty , but insensible to the power of love , is represented by the poet as reduced to an obedience to Cupid , by a vision which befell her on a May - day ramble . The opening of this episode is as fol lows : - ] When come was the ...
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... Beauty enough to make a world to doat . About her neck , white as the fire amail , 5 A goodly chain of small orfevory , 6 Whereby there hung a ruby , without fail , Like to ane heart shapen verily , That as a spark of low , 7 so ...
... Beauty enough to make a world to doat . About her neck , white as the fire amail , 5 A goodly chain of small orfevory , 6 Whereby there hung a ruby , without fail , Like to ane heart shapen verily , That as a spark of low , 7 so ...
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... beauty , bounty , riches , time , or space , humour , descriptive of an imaginary tournament between a tailor and a shoemaker , in the same low region where he places the dance of the seven deadly sins . It is in a style of the broadest ...
... beauty , bounty , riches , time , or space , humour , descriptive of an imaginary tournament between a tailor and a shoemaker , in the same low region where he places the dance of the seven deadly sins . It is in a style of the broadest ...
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... beauty and refinement of the celebrated Ode on the Passions , has yet an animated picturesqueness not unlike that of Collins . The effect of both pieces shows how much more potent allegorical figures become , by being made to fleet sud ...
... beauty and refinement of the celebrated Ode on the Passions , has yet an animated picturesqueness not unlike that of Collins . The effect of both pieces shows how much more potent allegorical figures become , by being made to fleet sud ...
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