Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... round about A thousand timés day and night , Whose course standeth ever in doubt For to transmuel0 she is so light , For which adverteth in your sight Th ' untrust of worldly fickleness , Save women , which of kindly right11 Ne hath no ...
... round about A thousand timés day and night , Whose course standeth ever in doubt For to transmuel0 she is so light , For which adverteth in your sight Th ' untrust of worldly fickleness , Save women , which of kindly right11 Ne hath no ...
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... round ; 4 To speak also of Rosamond , And Cleopatra's faithfulness , The stories plainly will confound Men that ... round off , to cut round . 5 Impeach . 6 Ypesed , Fr. pesé - weighed . 9 Crowd . 12 Striving . 15 Counsel . 19 Judge . 10 ...
... round ; 4 To speak also of Rosamond , And Cleopatra's faithfulness , The stories plainly will confound Men that ... round off , to cut round . 5 Impeach . 6 Ypesed , Fr. pesé - weighed . 9 Crowd . 12 Striving . 15 Counsel . 19 Judge . 10 ...
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... round about him , as a wheel , Hang all in rumples to the heel His kethat12 for the nanes.13 Mony proud trumpour with him trippit ; Through scaldand fire aye as they skippit , They grinned with hideous granes . Then IRE came in with ...
... round about him , as a wheel , Hang all in rumples to the heel His kethat12 for the nanes.13 Mony proud trumpour with him trippit ; Through scaldand fire aye as they skippit , They grinned with hideous granes . Then IRE came in with ...
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... round , The carver Holme , the Maple seldom inward sound⚫ Led with delight , they thus beguile the way , Until the blustering storm is overblown , When , weening to return , whence they did stray , They cannot find that path which ...
... round , The carver Holme , the Maple seldom inward sound⚫ Led with delight , they thus beguile the way , Until the blustering storm is overblown , When , weening to return , whence they did stray , They cannot find that path which ...
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... round about was set With shady laurel trees , thence to defend The sunny beams , which on the billows beat , And those which therein bathed might offend . Eftsoons they heard a most melodious sound , Of all that might delight a dainty ...
... round about was set With shady laurel trees , thence to defend The sunny beams , which on the billows beat , And those which therein bathed might offend . Eftsoons they heard a most melodious sound , Of all that might delight a dainty ...
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