Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talkSimpkin, Marshall, 1840 - 273 pages |
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... honour , All was this lond ful filled of faerie ; The elf - queen with her joly compagnie Danced ful oft in many a grene mede . This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non elves mo ...
... honour , All was this lond ful filled of faerie ; The elf - queen with her joly compagnie Danced ful oft in many a grene mede . This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non elves mo ...
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... honour and probity , " says Sir Robert . “ Priscæ fidei in Latin , " remarks his an- notator , - " in English , a Jacobite nonjuror . Briga- dier Middleton dishonourably obtained his interest in the town of B by drinking the Pretender's ...
... honour and probity , " says Sir Robert . “ Priscæ fidei in Latin , " remarks his an- notator , - " in English , a Jacobite nonjuror . Briga- dier Middleton dishonourably obtained his interest in the town of B by drinking the Pretender's ...
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... honoured her , and she died . " The verses themselves have little merit ; they begin thus : - " You need not wonder , Strephon , at this hour What brings me to your solitary bower , Wrapt up in air my shade can move along , And pass ...
... honoured her , and she died . " The verses themselves have little merit ; they begin thus : - " You need not wonder , Strephon , at this hour What brings me to your solitary bower , Wrapt up in air my shade can move along , And pass ...
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... honours , " returned thanks to my Almighty Deliverer , for this fresh instance of his mercy , and emptied my boots of the water that had got into them , I bent my course into the desert . " 1 XXIII . FLOWERS FROM A NEGLECTED GARDEN ...
... honours , " returned thanks to my Almighty Deliverer , for this fresh instance of his mercy , and emptied my boots of the water that had got into them , I bent my course into the desert . " 1 XXIII . FLOWERS FROM A NEGLECTED GARDEN ...
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... honour of the Virgin , who is praised under a hundred similitudes of plants of the earth , birds of the air , the dew of heaven , stars , mountains , and seas . With much quaintness and not a little beauty , the violet is thus described ...
... honour of the Virgin , who is praised under a hundred similitudes of plants of the earth , birds of the air , the dew of heaven , stars , mountains , and seas . With much quaintness and not a little beauty , the violet is thus described ...
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