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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The Rune Song is an alphabet of the Runes , with attached verses , such we still make at the present day on the letters of the alphabet . There are two dialogues between Solomon and Saturnus , in which Christian wisdom in Solomon and ...
The Rune Song is an alphabet of the Runes , with attached verses , such we still make at the present day on the letters of the alphabet . There are two dialogues between Solomon and Saturnus , in which Christian wisdom in Solomon and ...
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Noght wiste he what this Latyn was to seye , For he so yong and tendre was of age ; But on a day his felawe gan he preye Texpounden hym this song in his langage , Or telle him why this song was in usage ; This preyde he hym to construe ...
Noght wiste he what this Latyn was to seye , For he so yong and tendre was of age ; But on a day his felawe gan he preye Texpounden hym this song in his langage , Or telle him why this song was in usage ; This preyde he hym to construe ...
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It is difficult to know airs ; the result was the composition of innumerexactly how to date the songs of Sidney , all of able brief snatches of song , lucid , aerial , and symwhich must be precedent to 1586 , while some may pathetic ...
It is difficult to know airs ; the result was the composition of innumerexactly how to date the songs of Sidney , all of able brief snatches of song , lucid , aerial , and symwhich must be precedent to 1586 , while some may pathetic ...
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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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