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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... Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 . Time's Alteration , 230 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined , 231 Description of Night in a Camp , 188 The Blessings of a Shepherd's ...
... Court Life , and the Advantages The Old and Young Courtier , 229 of Adversity , 188 . Time's Alteration , 230 The World compared to a Stage , 188 Loyalty Confined , 231 Description of Night in a Camp , 188 The Blessings of a Shepherd's ...
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... Court of Death , 574 Pomp and Superfluity , 625 The Hare and Many Friends , 574 ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN , 625 The Lion , the Tiger , and the Traveller , 574 JONATHAN SWIFT , 626 Sweet William's Farewell to Black - Eyed Susan , 575 ...
... Court of Death , 574 Pomp and Superfluity , 625 The Hare and Many Friends , 574 ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN , 625 The Lion , the Tiger , and the Traveller , 574 JONATHAN SWIFT , 626 Sweet William's Farewell to Black - Eyed Susan , 575 ...
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... court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar with different modes tractions which followed , and the paucity of any striking poetical genius for at least a century and a half after his death , too ...
... court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar with different modes tractions which followed , and the paucity of any striking poetical genius for at least a century and a half after his death , too ...
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... Court of Love was written about the year 1346 ) ; and Boccaccio ( more poetical in his prose than his verse ) had composed that inimitable century of tales , his Decameron , in which the charms of romance are clothed in all the pure and ...
... Court of Love was written about the year 1346 ) ; and Boccaccio ( more poetical in his prose than his verse ) had composed that inimitable century of tales , his Decameron , in which the charms of romance are clothed in all the pure and ...
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... court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand green , And said soon , ' Scot , Martin's fish we wald have ! ' Wallace meekly again answer him gave . ' It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith ...
... court had Wallace ' labour seen , Till him rade five , clad into ganand green , And said soon , ' Scot , Martin's fish we wald have ! ' Wallace meekly again answer him gave . ' It were reason , methink , ye should have part , Waith ...
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