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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... king and queen at Holyrood . He was in attendance on the king at the church of St Michael , Linlithgow , when an apparition warned the monarch against passing to England on his fatal project of invasion - an incident graphically ...
... king and queen at Holyrood . He was in attendance on the king at the church of St Michael , Linlithgow , when an apparition warned the monarch against passing to England on his fatal project of invasion - an incident graphically ...
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... King Duncane hapnit to be for the time , and met be the gait thre wemen , clothit in elrage and uncouth weid . Thay wer jugit be the pepill to be weird sisteris . The first of thaim said to Makbeth : ' Hale , Thane of Glammis ! ' the ...
... King Duncane hapnit to be for the time , and met be the gait thre wemen , clothit in elrage and uncouth weid . Thay wer jugit be the pepill to be weird sisteris . The first of thaim said to Makbeth : ' Hale , Thane of Glammis ! ' the ...
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... King , exceedingly commended the justice and goodness and understanding of the present King , and prayed that they might not betray him as they had done his father . When he had ended all he meant to say , and was expecting to expire ...
... King , exceedingly commended the justice and goodness and understanding of the present King , and prayed that they might not betray him as they had done his father . When he had ended all he meant to say , and was expecting to expire ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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