Chamber's Cyclopędia 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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Popular and esteemed in the seventeenth century , What thing doth please thee most ? Breton's work was forgotten in the eighteenth , till To gaze on beauty still . Bishop Percy printed in the Reliques two of his Whom dost thou think to ...
Popular and esteemed in the seventeenth century , What thing doth please thee most ? Breton's work was forgotten in the eighteenth , till To gaze on beauty still . Bishop Percy printed in the Reliques two of his Whom dost thou think to ...
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... That when the aire doth dance her finest measure , Then art thou born , the gods ' and men's sweet pleasure . ... both doth understand : For his great chrystall eye is alwayes cast Up to the Moone , and on her fixed fast : And as ...
... That when the aire doth dance her finest measure , Then art thou born , the gods ' and men's sweet pleasure . ... both doth understand : For his great chrystall eye is alwayes cast Up to the Moone , and on her fixed fast : And as ...
Page 570
Now all things smile : only my Love doth lour , Nor hath the scalding noon - day Sun the power To melt that marble ice , which still doth hold Her heart congeal'd , and makes her pity cold . The ox , which lately did for shelter flie ...
Now all things smile : only my Love doth lour , Nor hath the scalding noon - day Sun the power To melt that marble ice , which still doth hold Her heart congeal'd , and makes her pity cold . The ox , which lately did for shelter flie ...
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| Title | Chamber's Cyclopędia 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 Chamber's Cyclopędia 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, John Liddell Geddie |
| Author | Robert Chambers |
| Editor | David Patrick |
| Published | 1922 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2010 |
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