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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... Sweet is the Rose , but growes upon a brere ; Sweet is the Junipere , but sharpe his bough ; Sweet is the Eglantine , but pricketh nere ; Sweet is the Firbloome , but his braunche is rough ; Sweet is the Cypresse , but his rynd is tough ; ...
... Sweet is the Rose , but growes upon a brere ; Sweet is the Junipere , but sharpe his bough ; Sweet is the Eglantine , but pricketh nere ; Sweet is the Firbloome , but his braunche is rough ; Sweet is the Cypresse , but his rynd is tough ; ...
Page 565
... Sweet Spirit , comfort me ! When I lie within my bed , Sick in heart and sick in head , And with doubts discomforted , Sweet Spirit , comfort me ! When the house doth sigh and weep , And the world is drown'd in sleep , Yet mine eyes the ...
... Sweet Spirit , comfort me ! When I lie within my bed , Sick in heart and sick in head , And with doubts discomforted , Sweet Spirit , comfort me ! When the house doth sigh and weep , And the world is drown'd in sleep , Yet mine eyes the ...
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... sweet rise , many as sweet a fall ) A full - mouth'd diapason swallowes all . This done , he lists what she would say to this , And she , ( although her breath's late exercise Had dealt too roughly with her tender throate , ) Yet ...
... sweet rise , many as sweet a fall ) A full - mouth'd diapason swallowes all . This done , he lists what she would say to this , And she , ( although her breath's late exercise Had dealt too roughly with her tender throate , ) Yet ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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