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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... give , Christ pleads His death , and then we live . Be thou my speaker , taintless pleader , Unblotted lawyer , true proceeder ! Thou giv'st salvation even for alms ; Not with a bribed lawyer's palms . And this is mine eternal plea To ...
... give , Christ pleads His death , and then we live . Be thou my speaker , taintless pleader , Unblotted lawyer , true proceeder ! Thou giv'st salvation even for alms ; Not with a bribed lawyer's palms . And this is mine eternal plea To ...
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... give them thee ; My tongue to Fame ; to ' embassadors myne eares ; To women , or the sea , my tears . Thou , Love , hast taught me heretofore By making me love her who ' had twentie more , That I should give to none but such as had too ...
... give them thee ; My tongue to Fame ; to ' embassadors myne eares ; To women , or the sea , my tears . Thou , Love , hast taught me heretofore By making me love her who ' had twentie more , That I should give to none but such as had too ...
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... give , since he that serves Mammon with his estate cannot possibly serve God with his heart . For as in the heathen worship of God a sacrifice without an heart was accounted ominous , so , in the Christian worship of him , an heart ...
... give , since he that serves Mammon with his estate cannot possibly serve God with his heart . For as in the heathen worship of God a sacrifice without an heart was accounted ominous , so , in the Christian worship of him , an heart ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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