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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... pass dry out - ower it then . And lads , swains , and rangle , 5 When they saw vanquished the battle , Ran amang them ; and sae gan slay , As folk that nae defence micht ma ' . * * On ane side , they their faes had , That slew them down ...
... pass dry out - ower it then . And lads , swains , and rangle , 5 When they saw vanquished the battle , Ran amang them ; and sae gan slay , As folk that nae defence micht ma ' . * * On ane side , they their faes had , That slew them down ...
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... pass . Ridand there came , near by where Wallace was , The Lord Percy , was captain than of Ayr ; Frae then ' he turned , and couth to Glasgow fare.3 Part of the court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand ...
... pass . Ridand there came , near by where Wallace was , The Lord Percy , was captain than of Ayr ; Frae then ' he turned , and couth to Glasgow fare.3 Part of the court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand ...
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... pass without produc- ing them . From the death of Chaucer in 1400 , nearly two hundred years elapsed in England , before any poet comparable to him arose , and yet those two centuries were more enlightened than the times of Chaucer ...
... pass without produc- ing them . From the death of Chaucer in 1400 , nearly two hundred years elapsed in England , before any poet comparable to him arose , and yet those two centuries were more enlightened than the times of Chaucer ...
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... passing That I can indite , Or suffice to write , Of merry Margaret , As midsimmer flower , Gentle as falcon Or hawk of ... pass , In greater feast than Priam's son of Troy : Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour ! The large ...
... passing That I can indite , Or suffice to write , Of merry Margaret , As midsimmer flower , Gentle as falcon Or hawk of ... pass , In greater feast than Priam's son of Troy : Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour ! The large ...
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... pass , And when my years be passed without annoy , Let me die old after the common trace , For grips of death do he too hardly pass That known is to all , but to himself , alas ! He dieth unknown , dased with dreadful face . THOMAS ...
... pass , And when my years be passed without annoy , Let me die old after the common trace , For grips of death do he too hardly pass That known is to all , but to himself , alas ! He dieth unknown , dased with dreadful face . THOMAS ...
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