Selections from English literature, by E. Lee, Book 4Elizabeth Lee 1913 |
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... hear the tales of Hercules , Achilles , Cyrus , Æneas ; and hearing them , must needs hear the right description of wisdom , valour and justice ; which , if they had been barely ( that is to say philosophically ) set out , they would ...
... hear the tales of Hercules , Achilles , Cyrus , Æneas ; and hearing them , must needs hear the right description of wisdom , valour and justice ; which , if they had been barely ( that is to say philosophically ) set out , they would ...
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... hear . " Drop thy pipe , thy happy pipe , Sing thy songs of happy cheer . " So I sung the same again , 66 While he wept with joy to hear . Piper , sit thee down and write In a book , that all may read . " So he vanish'd from my sight ...
... hear . " Drop thy pipe , thy happy pipe , Sing thy songs of happy cheer . " So I sung the same again , 66 While he wept with joy to hear . Piper , sit thee down and write In a book , that all may read . " So he vanish'd from my sight ...
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... hear what wind and sea Hear not , and speak what all these crying in one Can speak not to the sun . For in her sovereign eyelight all things are Clear as the closest seen and kindlier star That marries morn and even and winter and ...
... hear what wind and sea Hear not , and speak what all these crying in one Can speak not to the sun . For in her sovereign eyelight all things are Clear as the closest seen and kindlier star That marries morn and even and winter and ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13401400 | 1 |
WILLIAM CAXTON 1422 ?1491 | 10 |
STEPHEN HAWES d 1523 | 17 |
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