Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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Page 14
... light , and the universe melts in conflagration . Only Mount Zion remains , and the throne , and the dead , small and great , before it . Then , with its root on the mount and its top in heaven , a mighty Cross is upraised , wet with ...
... light , and the universe melts in conflagration . Only Mount Zion remains , and the throne , and the dead , small and great , before it . Then , with its root on the mount and its top in heaven , a mighty Cross is upraised , wet with ...
Page 16
... light , nither tumbles down : And the stars also shower down from heaven , Headlong through the roaring lift , lashed by all the winds . ( From the Crist . ) The Bliss of Heaven . There , is angels ' song ; there , enjoyment of the ...
... light , nither tumbles down : And the stars also shower down from heaven , Headlong through the roaring lift , lashed by all the winds . ( From the Crist . ) The Bliss of Heaven . There , is angels ' song ; there , enjoyment of the ...
Page 70
... light , Ful privély two harneys hath he dight , Bothe suffisaunt and metė to darreyne The bataille in the feeld betwix hem tweyne ; And on his hors , allone as he was born , He carieth al the harneys hym biforn : And in the grove , at ...
... light , Ful privély two harneys hath he dight , Bothe suffisaunt and metė to darreyne The bataille in the feeld betwix hem tweyne ; And on his hors , allone as he was born , He carieth al the harneys hym biforn : And in the grove , at ...
Page 73
... light purgh by prayere To gyden vs þe way to by sone so deere My connyng is to weyk o blisful queene For to declare by grete worþinesse That I may not pis in my wyt susteene But as a child of twelf month old or lesse Than can vnnepes ...
... light purgh by prayere To gyden vs þe way to by sone so deere My connyng is to weyk o blisful queene For to declare by grete worþinesse That I may not pis in my wyt susteene But as a child of twelf month old or lesse Than can vnnepes ...
Page 113
... light . And for fere myne eyes should my hert bewray , I toke my leve and to a temple wente , And all alone I to my selfe dyd saye : Alas ! what fortune hath me hyther sente , To devoyde my joye and my hert torment ; No man can tell ...
... light . And for fere myne eyes should my hert bewray , I toke my leve and to a temple wente , And all alone I to my selfe dyd saye : Alas ! what fortune hath me hyther sente , To devoyde my joye and my hert torment ; No man can tell ...
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