A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper. Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Choice Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms...E. C. and J. Biddle, 1847 - 702 pages |
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... thought . Wiclif is disinhumed ; Yea - his dry bones to ashes are consumed , And flung into the brook that travels near : Forthwith , that ancient voice which streams can hear , Thus speaks- ( that voice which walks upon the wind ...
... thought . Wiclif is disinhumed ; Yea - his dry bones to ashes are consumed , And flung into the brook that travels near : Forthwith , that ancient voice which streams can hear , Thus speaks- ( that voice which walks upon the wind ...
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... thought and work ; He was also a learned man , a Clerk , That Christés gospel truly wouldé preach ; His parishens2 devoutly would he teach ; Benign he was , and wonder diligent , And in adversity full patient , And such he was yprovéd ...
... thought and work ; He was also a learned man , a Clerk , That Christés gospel truly wouldé preach ; His parishens2 devoutly would he teach ; Benign he was , and wonder diligent , And in adversity full patient , And such he was yprovéd ...
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... thought to marry his daughters among all those kings that were of that solemnity . And so they spake and did , that Albine , his eldest daughter , and all her sisters , richly were married unto thirty - three kings , that were lords of ...
... thought to marry his daughters among all those kings that were of that solemnity . And so they spake and did , that Albine , his eldest daughter , and all her sisters , richly were married unto thirty - three kings , that were lords of ...
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... thought , to secure its happiness , than any which mankind had hitherto experienced . But while there is much in it that is fanciful and truly Utopian , there is also much that is truly excel- lent , and worthy to be adopted . Thus ...
... thought , to secure its happiness , than any which mankind had hitherto experienced . But while there is much in it that is fanciful and truly Utopian , there is also much that is truly excel- lent , and worthy to be adopted . Thus ...
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... thought ; the ease of the courtier and the gravity of the Christian . But what distinguished him more than even his talents or the powers of his wit , was a certain generous contempt of vice , and an exalted love of virtue , which seems ...
... thought ; the ease of the courtier and the gravity of the Christian . But what distinguished him more than even his talents or the powers of his wit , was a certain generous contempt of vice , and an exalted love of virtue , which seems ...
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