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 1 |
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Page 98
... bokes of wysedom , of the lyves , passions , and myracles of holy sayntes , of hystoryes , of noble and famouse actes , and faittes [ deeds ] , and of the cronycles sith the begynnyng of the creacion of the world , unto thys present ...
... bokes of wysedom , of the lyves , passions , and myracles of holy sayntes , of hystoryes , of noble and famouse actes , and faittes [ deeds ] , and of the cronycles sith the begynnyng of the creacion of the world , unto thys present ...
Page 102
... bokes in our tonge maternall Of toyes and trifellys be made and impryntyd , And few of them of matter substancyall ; For though many make bokes , yet uneeth ye shall In our Englysshe tonge fynde any warkes Of connynge , that is regarded ...
... bokes in our tonge maternall Of toyes and trifellys be made and impryntyd , And few of them of matter substancyall ; For though many make bokes , yet uneeth ye shall In our Englysshe tonge fynde any warkes Of connynge , that is regarded ...
Page 117
... bokes to have grete plenty and aparayle . I take no wysdome by them , nor yet avayle , Nor them perceyve nat , and then I them despyse . Thus am I a foole and all that sewe that guyse . That in this shyp the chefe place I governe By ...
... bokes to have grete plenty and aparayle . I take no wysdome by them , nor yet avayle , Nor them perceyve nat , and then I them despyse . Thus am I a foole and all that sewe that guyse . That in this shyp the chefe place I governe By ...
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HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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