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 79
... lines , and thoroughly approved of the burning of John Badby in 1410 . His Regement of Princes and a volume of his minor poems have been edited for the Early English Text Society by Dr F. J. Furnivall , from whose introductions the ...
... lines , and thoroughly approved of the burning of John Badby in 1410 . His Regement of Princes and a volume of his minor poems have been edited for the Early English Text Society by Dr F. J. Furnivall , from whose introductions the ...
Page 116
... lines ' To maystres Margaret Hussey ' : Mirry Margaret , As mydsomer flowre , Jentill as fawcoun Or hawke of the towre ; With solace and gladnes , Moche mirthe and no madnes , All good and no badnes , So joyously , agrees not cite So ...
... lines ' To maystres Margaret Hussey ' : Mirry Margaret , As mydsomer flowre , Jentill as fawcoun Or hawke of the towre ; With solace and gladnes , Moche mirthe and no madnes , All good and no badnes , So joyously , agrees not cite So ...
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... lines through and through both poems - sometimes in matters of relative specialty , oftenest in mere commonplace ... lines identical with others in the Alexander . The reader will best appreciate this from a few examples , which may be ...
... lines through and through both poems - sometimes in matters of relative specialty , oftenest in mere commonplace ... lines identical with others in the Alexander . The reader will best appreciate this from a few examples , which may be ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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