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... rich and interesting a possession of its kind as any modern language can exhibit . It belongs to all who can read , and ought by no means to be abandoned to the scholar only , or the literary antiquarian . After the newspaper , the ...
... rich and interesting a possession of its kind as any modern language can exhibit . It belongs to all who can read , and ought by no means to be abandoned to the scholar only , or the literary antiquarian . After the newspaper , the ...
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... rich , and some beggars and poor ; For all are we Christ's creatures , and of his coffers rich , And brethren as of one blood , as well beggars as earls . " " For which sudden abate anon astart The blood of all my body to my heart ...
... rich , and some beggars and poor ; For all are we Christ's creatures , and of his coffers rich , And brethren as of one blood , as well beggars as earls . " " For which sudden abate anon astart The blood of all my body to my heart ...
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... rich in books and in dust , but closed to the public except with repelling restrictions . But , from the time the Normans came among us , these re- strictions were removed . Latin was no longer the only literary tongue ; and the clergy ...
... rich in books and in dust , but closed to the public except with repelling restrictions . But , from the time the Normans came among us , these re- strictions were removed . Latin was no longer the only literary tongue ; and the clergy ...
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... rich and varied results of his travel . His reputed early poems , such as the Romaunt of the Rose , etc. , point almost exclusively to culture in French medieval litera- ture . The Death of Blanche the Duchess , written in 1369 in ...
... rich and varied results of his travel . His reputed early poems , such as the Romaunt of the Rose , etc. , point almost exclusively to culture in French medieval litera- ture . The Death of Blanche the Duchess , written in 1369 in ...
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... rich of hue , And flowers yellow , white , and red ; Such plenty grew there never in mead . Full gay was all the ground , and quaint , 2 And powdred , as men had it paint . With many a fresh and sundry flow er That casten up full good ...
... rich of hue , And flowers yellow , white , and red ; Such plenty grew there never in mead . Full gay was all the ground , and quaint , 2 And powdred , as men had it paint . With many a fresh and sundry flow er That casten up full good ...
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Page 207 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 253 - Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, Tomorrow will be dying.
Page 230 - Yet must I not give Nature all; thy Art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
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Page 200 - Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn, and sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right ; To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours, And smear with dust their glittering golden towers : 1 To fill with worm-holes stately monuments, To feed oblivion with decay of things, To blot old books, and alter their contents, To pluck the quills from ancient ravens...