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 |
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... ground as the substance of the popular language , the Norman infusing only about one word for every three of the more vulgar tongue . But it was destined , in the course of the twelfth century , to undergo great grammatical changes ...
... ground as the substance of the popular language , the Norman infusing only about one word for every three of the more vulgar tongue . But it was destined , in the course of the twelfth century , to undergo great grammatical changes ...
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... ground here and there , ac the heathen side Wax ever wersh7 and wersh of folk that come wide . So that this Christianmen were all ground ney . Tho Beaumond with his host this great sorrow y - sey , He and Tancred and their men , that ...
... ground here and there , ac the heathen side Wax ever wersh7 and wersh of folk that come wide . So that this Christianmen were all ground ney . Tho Beaumond with his host this great sorrow y - sey , He and Tancred and their men , that ...
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... little and great . 5 Chasten or check . 8 What do you advise . 7 Proud . 10 But assuredly . was born . First . 11 It shall be ill - fortune to him that he 12 Order . 9 With cloth of arras pight to the ground , With METRICAL ROMANCES .
... little and great . 5 Chasten or check . 8 What do you advise . 7 Proud . 10 But assuredly . was born . First . 11 It shall be ill - fortune to him that he 12 Order . 9 With cloth of arras pight to the ground , With METRICAL ROMANCES .
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... ground , With sapphires set of diamond . A hundred knights , truly told , Shall play with bowls in alleys cold , Your disease to drive away ; To see the fishes in pools play , To a drawbridge then shall ye , Th ' one half of stone , th ...
... ground , With sapphires set of diamond . A hundred knights , truly told , Shall play with bowls in alleys cold , Your disease to drive away ; To see the fishes in pools play , To a drawbridge then shall ye , Th ' one half of stone , th ...
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... ground was green y - powdered with daisy , The flowers and the groves alike high , All green and white was nothing else seen . The destruction of the Royal Manor at Woodstock , and the subsequent erection of Blenheim , have changed the ...
... ground was green y - powdered with daisy , The flowers and the groves alike high , All green and white was nothing else seen . The destruction of the Royal Manor at Woodstock , and the subsequent erection of Blenheim , have changed the ...
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