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 8
... sweet- heart of the writer to join him in the foreign land where he waits for her : ' Come in the spring , when the cuckoo calls from the cliff . ' The Wife's Complaint tells of her banishment by false tongues from her lord , and mourns ...
... sweet- heart of the writer to join him in the foreign land where he waits for her : ' Come in the spring , when the cuckoo calls from the cliff . ' The Wife's Complaint tells of her banishment by false tongues from her lord , and mourns ...
Page 53
... sweet look she spoke to him : ' Sir , if ye be Gawain , I think it a wonder that ye be so stern and cold , and care not for the courtesies of friendship ; but if one teach ye to know them ye cast the lesson out of your mind . Ye have ...
... sweet look she spoke to him : ' Sir , if ye be Gawain , I think it a wonder that ye be so stern and cold , and care not for the courtesies of friendship ; but if one teach ye to know them ye cast the lesson out of your mind . Ye have ...
Page 124
... sweet will ' -phrases not yet done to death by three centuries of use and abuse . ' Grass widows ' - in More's usage unmarried women who had had a child - were not tenderly treated . A tale of a tub ' is already a jocular phrase with ...
... sweet will ' -phrases not yet done to death by three centuries of use and abuse . ' Grass widows ' - in More's usage unmarried women who had had a child - were not tenderly treated . A tale of a tub ' is already a jocular phrase with ...
Page 169
... Sweet and Bugge held it to be not later than 750 ; others have argued that the runic inscription cannot be earlier than 800 , and others again that it may perhaps be as late as 950. But among all these conflicting hypotheses , there is ...
... Sweet and Bugge held it to be not later than 750 ; others have argued that the runic inscription cannot be earlier than 800 , and others again that it may perhaps be as late as 950. But among all these conflicting hypotheses , there is ...
Page 193
... sweet hastily attired 1 Hereupon May disappears from the poem , but the dream from which the dreamer awakes finally only in the last verse - goes on . As might be ex- pected from his dream - like attire , the bard still has serious ...
... sweet hastily attired 1 Hereupon May disappears from the poem , but the dream from which the dreamer awakes finally only in the last verse - goes on . As might be ex- pected from his dream - like attire , the bard still has serious ...
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