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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... Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 Time's Alteration , 2:30 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined , 231 Description of Night in a Camp , 188 The Blessings of a Shepherd's ...
... Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 Time's Alteration , 2:30 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined , 231 Description of Night in a Camp , 188 The Blessings of a Shepherd's ...
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... court , governed by statutes , and a system of chivalrous mythology ( such as the poetical worship of the rose and the daisy ) supplanted Have a knock of a King , and incurable the wound . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . With these imperfect models ...
... court , governed by statutes , and a system of chivalrous mythology ( such as the poetical worship of the rose and the daisy ) supplanted Have a knock of a King , and incurable the wound . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . With these imperfect models ...
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... Court of Love was written about the year 1346 ) ; and Boccaccio ( more poetical in his prose than his verse ) had composed that inimitable century of tales , his Decameron , in which the charms of romance are clothed in all the pure and ...
... Court of Love was written about the year 1346 ) ; and Boccaccio ( more poetical in his prose than his verse ) had composed that inimitable century of tales , his Decameron , in which the charms of romance are clothed in all the pure and ...
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... court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand green , And said soon , ' Scot , Martin's fish we wald have ! " Wallace meekly again answer him gave . ' It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith ...
... court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand green , And said soon , ' Scot , Martin's fish we wald have ! " Wallace meekly again answer him gave . ' It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith ...
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... Court of Common Pleas , the Court of Chancery , and Westminster Hall . The London Lyckpenny . Within the hall , neither rich , nor yet poor • Would do for me ought , although I should die : Which seeing , I gat me out of the door ...
... Court of Common Pleas , the Court of Chancery , and Westminster Hall . The London Lyckpenny . Within the hall , neither rich , nor yet poor • Would do for me ought , although I should die : Which seeing , I gat me out of the door ...
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