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 337
... death , too much deferu'd , her felfe did meekely frame . [ efchew She bids commend her to her fonne , and will him to Ill practises and policies , for thence her forowes grew : True Romish , Scottish , and true French , tell all my ...
... death , too much deferu'd , her felfe did meekely frame . [ efchew She bids commend her to her fonne , and will him to Ill practises and policies , for thence her forowes grew : True Romish , Scottish , and true French , tell all my ...
Page 383
... Death . Men fear death , as children fear to go in the dark : and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Certainly the contemplation of death as the wages of sin and passage to another world is holy ...
... Death . Men fear death , as children fear to go in the dark : and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Certainly the contemplation of death as the wages of sin and passage to another world is holy ...
Page 429
... death - bed ? Do we affect fashion in the grave ? Bos . Most ambitiously . Princes ' images on their tombs do not lie as they were wont , seeming to pray up to heaven ; but with their hands under their cheeks , as if they died of the ...
... death - bed ? Do we affect fashion in the grave ? Bos . Most ambitiously . Princes ' images on their tombs do not lie as they were wont , seeming to pray up to heaven ; but with their hands under their cheeks , as if they died of the ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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