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 - English literature |
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... breath : But on his lady yet cast he his eye ; His laste word was , ' Mercy , Emily ! ' [ Departure of Custance . ] The will of Christ , and kneeling on the strond , She saide , Lord , aye welcome be thy sond . ' He that me kepte from ...
... breath : But on his lady yet cast he his eye ; His laste word was , ' Mercy , Emily ! ' [ Departure of Custance . ] The will of Christ , and kneeling on the strond , She saide , Lord , aye welcome be thy sond . ' He that me kepte from ...
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... breath , foul art thou to embrace ; And through thy drunken nose seemeth the soun As though thou saidést aye Sampsoun ! Sampsoun ! And yet , Got wot , Sampsoun drunk ne'er no wine : Thou fallest as it were a stickéd swine ; Thy tongue ...
... breath , foul art thou to embrace ; And through thy drunken nose seemeth the soun As though thou saidést aye Sampsoun ! Sampsoun ! And yet , Got wot , Sampsoun drunk ne'er no wine : Thou fallest as it were a stickéd swine ; Thy tongue ...
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... breath in singing or crying . The entrails , which be underneath the midriff , be exercised by blowing either by constraint or playing on shalins or sackbuts , or other like instruments which do re- quire much wind . The muscles are ...
... breath in singing or crying . The entrails , which be underneath the midriff , be exercised by blowing either by constraint or playing on shalins or sackbuts , or other like instruments which do re- quire much wind . The muscles are ...
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... breath ; Small keep took he , whom fortune frowned on , Or whom she lifted up into the throne Of high renown , but , as a living death , So dead alive , of life he drew the breath : The body's rest , the quiet of the heart , The ...
... breath ; Small keep took he , whom fortune frowned on , Or whom she lifted up into the throne Of high renown , but , as a living death , So dead alive , of life he drew the breath : The body's rest , the quiet of the heart , The ...
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... breath : And , by and by , a dumb dead corpse we saw , Heavy , and cold , the shape of Death aright , That daunts all earthly creatures to his law , Against whose force in vain it is to fight ; Ne peers , ne princes , nor no mortal ...
... breath : And , by and by , a dumb dead corpse we saw , Heavy , and cold , the shape of Death aright , That daunts all earthly creatures to his law , Against whose force in vain it is to fight ; Ne peers , ne princes , nor no mortal ...
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